Resources
Be it on this site, or another, there is sure to be something either interesting or useful, or both, somewhere in these pages.
Online Cookbook Sources
- Early texts on coffee, tea and chocolate- Texts from the 16th century to 1744 in various languages including a good few in English. (off-site)
- Feeding America- The Historic American Cookbook Project, this site offers cookbooks from 1798 to 1922 (off-site)
- Henry Notaker, Old Cookbooks and Food History- Features books from 1300 to 1857 along with some links to other sources (off-site)
- Historical Culinary & Brewing Documents Online- An ever growing list of online cookbooks from early history, strait into the early 20th century (off-site)
- Kookhistorie- Dutch culinary texts from 1500 to 1800 (off-site)
- Medieval and Renaissance Food- Links to online sources from the 14th century to the late 17th century along with other articles on early foodstuffs (off-site)
- Medieval Cookery, Online Cookbooks- The Medieval Cookery site features links to online cookbooks starting from the year 400 all the way to the late 17th century (off-site)
- Monumenta Culinaria et Diaetetica Historica- Thomas Gloning, Corpus of culinary & dietetic texts of Europe from the Middle Ages to 1800 (mostly transcriptions in various languages though many translations of these texts are available through other sources) (off-site)
- Online Books 1560-1953- Online Cookery related books found through "Google Books" (as of 2011)
- Wellcome Library- You can search their digitized collections for receipt books from the 16th century through to the 19th century though not all listed may be available online (off-site)
Charts
- Measurements and Conversions- Taken from various cookbooks