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Dutch Oven Cooking

by John G. Ragsdale

illustrated by G.F. Zinkgraf

Pacesetter Press, 1973

softcover  - 54 pages

very good condition

our price:   $3.50 plus media mail shipping

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Colonial Cookbook

edited by Clarissa M. Silitch

vintage softcover, 64 pages

Yankee, Inc.

contains many unique colonial recipes

First Edition stated, 1976

fairly good condition - front cover has stain as shown in photo

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Woodstove Cookery - At Home On The Range

by Jane Cooper

Garden Way Publishing, 1977

vintage softcover - good condition

a very few dog-eared pages

196 pages -

our price:   $5.95  plus media mail shipping

Biblical Garden Cookery

by Eileen Gaden

Christian Herald Books, 1976

good condition

dustjacket shows some wear

214 pages

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

The exciting story of food in American life featuring 705 recipes including colonial, ethnic, and modern favorites

edited by Don Dooley

vintage hardcover, 400 pages

Meredith Corporation, 1975, first edition

very good condition

our price:   $17.95 plus media mail shipping

Reader’s Digest - Like Grandma Used to Make

A Treasury of Fondly Remembered Dishes

Project Editor - Lee Fowler

Reader’s Digest Association, 1996

very good “like new” condition

hardcover - 368 pages

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

The Old-Fashioned Cookbook

by Jan McBride Carlton

Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1975

vintage hardcover, 367 pages

dustjacket is worn with tears

interior of book is excellent - clean and crisp

our price: $8.95  plus media mail shipping

Loaves & Fishes - Foods From Bible Times

by Malvina Kinard & Janet Crisler

Keats Publishing, Inc., 1978

vintage softcover - good  condition, 219 pages

gift inscription on first page

small faded fingerprint on title page

our price:  $7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Williamsburg Cookbook-Updated and Enlarged

recipes collected and adapted by Letha Booth

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1976

softcover - good condition

all pages are clean, crisp, and intact

196 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Settlement Cookbook - 1903

The Way to a Man’s Heart

Facsmilie Edition - like new condition, published in 1984

by Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc.,

compiled by Mrs. Simon Kandler and Mrs. Henry Schoenfeld and originally published in 1903 under the auspices of “The Settlement” Milwaukee, Wisconsin

recipes collected and adapted by Letha Booth

like new - all pages are unread, clean, crisp, and intact

hardcover, 196 pages

$19.95 plus media mail shipping

Woodstove Cookery - At Home On The Range

by Jane Cooper

Garden Way Publishing, 1977

vintage softcover

like new condition

196 pages -

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

Bonnie Merriman’s No. 2 Memory Lane Kitchen

by Bonnie Merriman

Standard Printing Company, 1975

Amarillo, Texas

vintage softcover - very good condition

64 pages - signed by author inside front cover

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

Bonnie Merriman’s No. 2 Memory Lane Kitchen

by Bonnie Merriman

Standard Printing Company, 1978

Amarillo, Texas

vintage softcover - very good condition

64 pages - signed by author on front end page

our price:   $6.95  plus media mail shipping

Watkins Cook Book

by The J.R. Watkins Co.

antique wirebound hardcover, 1938

288 pages

some pages are tanned due to age

back of book cover has chipped area

former owner’s name on inside corner

book shows it age but provides good reading

copy

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

The Williamsburg Cookbook-Updated and Enlarged

recipes collected and adapted by Letha Booth

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1978

softcover - good condition

all pages are clean, crisp, and intact

172 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Colonial Cookbook

edited by Clarissa M. Silitch

vintage softcover, 64 pages

Yankee, Inc.

contains many unique colonial recipes

First Edition stated, 1976

good condition

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Ruth Wakefield’s Toll House Cookbook

by Ruth Wakefield

Little, Brown & Company, 1955, second printing

antique hardcover, 381 pages

pages are unmarked and intact

no dustjacket

very good condition

$25.95 plus media mail shipping

The Early American Life Family Celebrations Cookbook

contents: 17th century Thanksgiving, Independence Day picnics, Election Day, Kentucky Derby Day Breakfast, Ohio Family Reunion, Barbecue, Downeast Supper for Company, Oyster Roasts, Fish Fries, A Virginia Christmas, Smorgasbord, Pennsylvania Dutch Sunday Dinner, Christmas Eve in New Mexico

by Editors of Early American Life

Early American Life, 1983, scarce book

softcover - good condition

all pages are clean, crisp, and intact

47 pages

back cover is soiled, front cover has crease as shown in photo

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

The Williamsburg Cookbook-Updated and Enlarged

recipes collected and adapted by Letha Booth

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1986

softcover - good condition

all pages are clean, crisp, and intact

172 pages

$7.95 plus media mail shipping

Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread, & Scuppernong Wine - The Folkore and Art of Southern Appalachian Cooking

A celebration of foodlore handed down from Scotland, England, Ireland, Germany, and the Cherokee Nation

James Beard Foundation KitchenAid Cookbook of the Year

by Joseph E. Dabney

softcover - like new condition

all pages are clean, crisp, and intact

494 pages

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

The Original White House Cook Book - 1887 Edition

Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc.

A Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home

by Mrs. F.L. Gillette and Hugo Ziemann, Steward of the White House

reprint of 1887 Edition

published by Media Solution Services, 1999

hardcover - new book - gilt edges and cover with gold print

570 pages  - pages are clean and crisp

our price:  $19.95 plus media mail shipping

The Little House Cookbook

Frontier Foods from Laura Ingall Wilder’s Classic Stories

by Barbara M. Walker

First Scholastic printing, 1991

good condition, 240 pages

illustrations by Garth Williams

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Volume II - Part I - Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930‘s by Rita Van Amber and  Part II - Low-Fat Pantry Cooking by Janet Van Amber Paske , Home Economist

Van Amber Publishers, 1998

First Edition Stated, seventh printing

spiral softcover, 341 pages

good condition

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

The exciting story of food in American life featuring 705 recipes including colonial, ethnic, and modern favorites

edited by Don Dooley

vintage hardcover, 400 pages

Meredith Corporation, 1975, first edition

very good condition

our price:   $17.95 plus media mail shipping

Rumford Complete Cookbook

by Lily Haxworth Wallace

Department of Home Economics of the Rumford Company - Providence, R.I.

The University Press, 1918

hardcover, very good condition considering

age of book

241 pages 

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Food and Recipes of the Thirteen Colonies

Cooking Throughout American History

by George Erdosh

Power Kids Press, 1997

hardcover

former library book with usual library markings

24 pages

our price:   $6.95 plus media mail shipping

The Mary Frances Cook Book

Adventures Among the Kitchen People

by Jane Eayre Fryer

reprint of original work published in 1912 by the John C. Winston Company

Applewood Books, 2005

softcover, 175 pages

NEW BOOK!!!!

our price:   $14.95 plus media mail shipping

Better Homes and Gardens Heritage Cook Book

The exciting story of food in American life featuring 705 recipes including colonial, ethnic, and modern favorites

edited by Don Dooley

vintage hardcover, 400 pages

in cardboard protective slipcase

Meredith Corporation, 1977,

first edition, sixth printing

very good condition

our price:   $19.95 plus media mail shipping

Handbook for Cooking and Housekeeping

4-H Club Members

Maine Extension Service - Bulletin No. 146 (Revised)

July 1939

by Leone M. Dakin, Extension Foods Specialist

vintage softcover, 44 pages

very good condition

no markings or highlighting

our price:   $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Smithsonian Folklife Cookbook

by Katherine S. Kirlin and Thomas M. Kirlin

Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991

softcover -  320 pages

interior pages - very good condition

$12.95 plus media mail shipping

Our Founding Foods

Classics From The First Century of American Celebrity Cookbooks

by Jane Tennant with S.G.B. Tennant, Jr.

Willow Creek Press, 2008

softcover,  264 pages

NEW BOOK!!!!

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

The Pipe Spring Cook Book

Original Pioneer Recipes

Zion Natural History Association,

Revised Edition, 1991

wirebound softcover -  74 pages

interior pages - like new condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Blue and Grey Cookery - Authentic Recipes From The Civil War Years

by  Hugh and Judy Gowan

Daisy Publishing, 1980

softcover booklet  -  40 pages

like new condition

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Bicentennial Heritage Recipes ’76

Special Limited Edition

Beta Sigma Phi International

Favorite Recipes Press, 1976

vintage plastic comb softcover, 197 pages

good condition considering age of books

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Ma’s Cookin’ Mountain Recipes

spiced with mountain customs, sayings, and superstitions

by “Sis and Jake”

Ozark Maid Candies

third printing, 1975

vintage softcover,  56 pages

very good  condition

our price:  $4.95 plus media mail shipping

Depression Era Recipes

by Patricia R. Wagner

Media Solution Services, 2002

21st Printing

hardcover, 170 pages

like brand new condition

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

Old-Time New England Cookbook

by Duncan MacDonald and Robb Sagendorph

with decorations by Scott Maclain

Dover Publications, Inc., 1993

softcover, 214 pages

like brand new condition

$8.95 plus media mail shipping

The American Heritage Cookbook and Illustrated History of American Eating & Drinking

with 500 Great Traditional Recipes and

Historic Menus

by the Editors of American Heritage, the Magazine of History

American Heritage Publishing, 1964

vintage hardcover, 640 pages

good condition - interior pages

dustjacket is worn as shown in photo

$14.95 plus media mail shipping

Old Carolina Tobacco Country Cookbook

From The Great Depression to World War II

by Arlene Crisp

Fourteenth Printing, 2004

softcover, 66 pages

like new condition

$17.95 plus media mail shipping

The Boston Cooking School Cook Book

by Fannie Merritt Farmer

Seventh Edition, completely revised by Wilma Lord Perkins

vintage hardcover,

Little, Brown and Company, 1941

well-loved and well-used with stains

830 pages followed by pages of 33 pages of priceless vintage advertisements

upper part of spine has been taped

our price:   $15.95 plus media mail shipping

Foods of the Frontier - A compendium of Receipts for Domestic Economy Cookery, Preserving, Herb-Lore, Pickling, Drying, Salting Down, Smoking, The Making of Wine, Brew, Candles & Soap 1776-1976

adapted for present-day use by Gertrude Harris

drawings by Heidi Palmer

101 Productions, 1975

vintage softcover,  192 pages

very good  condition

our price:  $12.95 plus media mail shipping

The “Ideal” Steam Cooker Cook Book and Helpful Hints to Housewives

Toldeo Cooker Co. - Toledo, Ohio

copyright, 1907

fascinating depiction of cooking in early 1900’s

fairly good condition considering age of booklet

first page has a small crease

antique booklet, 88 pages

our price:   $10.95  plus media mail shipping

Cooking on the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

by Mary Gunderson

Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, 2000

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Cooking on the Nineteenth-Century Whaling Ships

Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

by Charla L. Draper

Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, 2001

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

California Gold Rush Cooking

Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

by Lisa Golden Schroeder

Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, 2001

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Nineteenth-Century Lumber Camp Cooking

Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

by Maureen M. Fischer

Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, 2001

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

Southern Plantation Cooking

Exploring History Through Simple Recipes

by Mary Gunderson

Blue Earth Books, Capstone Press, 2001

hardcover, 32 pages

very good condition

our price:   $8.95 plus media mail shipping

The Settlement Cookbook

The Way to a Man’s Heart

Treasured Recipes of Seven Decades

The Famous All-Purpose Cook Book for Beginner and Expert

third edition - newly revised

Simon & Schuster, 1975

interior pages are clean, crisp, and intact

no dustjacket

cover shows light wear

hardcover, 567 pages

$9.95 plus media mail shipping

The Wood Cook’s Cook Book - A Guide to Better Cooking on a Wood Cook Stove - Including Recipes, Drawings, Old Tips and Tales

by Sarah D. Haskell

illustrated by Sally Jones

Cobblesmith, 1975

softcover -  126 pages

interior pages - excellent condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Grandma’s Wartime Kitchen - World War II and the Way We Cooked

by Joanne Lamb Hayes

St. Martin’s Press, 2000

hardcover -  126 pages

interior pages - like new condition

our price:   $12.95 plus media mail shipping


 

Prairie Kitchen Sampler - Sixty-Six Years of a Midwestern Farm Kitchen

by E. Mae Fritz

Hyperion, 1988

hardcover -  444 pages

interior pages - like new condition

our price:   $9.95 plus media mail shipping

Southern Appalachian Mountain Cookbook

Over 175 old-timey Highland Recipes and Remedies from The Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains

by Ferne Shelton

softcover - 32 pages

good condition

some light stains on cover

our price:   $7.95 plus media mail shipping

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Log Cabin Cooking

Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore

by Barbara Swell

Native Ground Music, 1996

softcover, 65 pages

very good condition

$4.95 plus media mail shipping

The Old Farmer’s Almanac Colonial Cookbook

edited by Clarissa M. Silitch

vintage softcover, 64 pages

Yankee Books, 1982

contains many unique colonial recipes

fairly good condition -

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Selected Recipes From The Saturday Evening Post Family Cookbook

edited by Cory SerVas, M.D. and Charlotte Turgeon

Saturday Evening Post Society, 1984

vintage softcover - good condition

112 pages

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

Watkins Cook Book

by The J.R. Watkins Co.

antique wirebound hardcover, 1938

288 pages

some pages are tanned due to age

back of book cover has chipped area

former owner’s name on inside corner

book shows it age but provides good reading

copy

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

Watkins Household Hints

by Elaine Allen

The J.R. Watkins Company, 1941

antique wirebound clothbound cover, 264 pages

some pages are tanned due to age

front cover has tear as shown in photo

book shows it age but provides good reading

copy

our price:   $9.95  plus media mail shipping

Aunt Sammy’s Radio Recipes Revised

Bureau of Home Economics

U.S. Department of Agriculture

by Ruth Van Deman and Fanny Walker Yeatman

issued May 1931

front cover is stained as shown in photo

book shows it age but provides good reading

copy

softcover, 142 pages

missing back cover

our price:   $9.95  plus media mail shipping

Bull Cook and Authentic Historical Recipes

and Practices

by George Leonard Herter and Berthe Herter

The Ecco Press, 1995

softcover, 384 pages

our price:   $10.95  plus media mail shipping

The Puddin Hill Cookbook

Recollections & Recipes

by Mary “Pud” Lauderdale Kearns

Mary of Puddin Hill, 1988

vintage spiralbound hardcover, 302 pages

our price:   $14.95  plus media mail shipping

Cowboy Cooking

Recipes from the Cowboy Artists of America

compiled and edited by Tom Watson

Northland Publishing, 1993

softcover, 162 pages

our price:   $12.95  plus media mail shipping

Eating the Plates - A Pilgrim Book of Food

and Manners

by Lucille Recht Penner

Scholastic, 1993

softcover, 118 pages

like new condition

$5.95 plus media mail shipping

The Victory Binding of the American Woman’s Cook Book - Wartime Edition

edited by Ruth Berolzheimer

published for the Culinary Arts Institute by Consolidated Book Publisher, Inc.

Chicago, 1942

vintage hardcover - thumb-indexed

collector’s item

recipes cut from old newspapers are taped to the front endpages

all pages are intact but the outer binding

is worn as shown in photo

816 pages + 64 Pages of “Wartime Cookery”

our price:   $29.95  plus media mail shipping

Miss Parloa’s New Cook Book

Facsimilie Reproduction of 1880 Cookbook from the makers of what is now known as Gold Medal Floir

by Maria Parloa

Betty Crocker

General Mills, Inc., 1974

softcover, 75 pages

our price:   $5.95 plus media mail shipping

Modern Priscilla Cook Book

One Thousand Recipes tested and Proved at the Priscilla Proving Plant

Special Subscription Edition

Priscilla Publishing Company, 1924

vintage hardcover - 352 pages

interior pages - good condition considering age

book appears to have had brown paper glued to its outside and now the brown paper is all chipped.

collector’s item

our price:   $9.95  plus media mail shipping

Part I -Stories and Recipes of the Great Depression of the 1930‘s Revised

compilrd by Rita Van Amber and 

Part II - More From Your Kitchen Today

Nutrition-Economy-Time

by Janet Van Amber Paske - Home Economist

First Edition Stated, 25th printing, 1995

wirebound spiral softcover, 334 pages

good condition

$14.95 plus media mail shipping