No muss, no fuss, no frills — just great recipe collections, many under $6.00! You'll also find historic cookbooks from Ancient Rome to Fannie Farmer, and wonderful gifts for any ardent cook or gourmet!
Recommendations... |  |  The American Frugal Housewife
by Lydia Maria Child
Simply written recipes for roasting a pig, preparing corned beef, hasty pudding, carrot pie, buffalo tongue, and scores of other dishes. Helpful suggestions for treating chilblains, dysentery, and other domestic concerns.
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 The Picayune's Creole Cook Book
by The Picayune
Hundreds of enticing recipes: soups and gumbos, seafoods, meats, rice dishes and jambalayas, cakes and pastries, fruit drinks, French breads, many other delectable dishes. Explanations of traditional French manner of preparations.
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 Decorative Napkin Folding for Beginners
by Lillian Oppenheimer, Natalie Epstein
22 different napkin folds enable even a beginner to make napkins in the shape of a heart, clown's hat, love knot, silverware holder, boot, etc. Photo of each finished napkin. 22 napkin folds, 63 drawings.
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 Spices and Herbs: Lore and Cookery
by Elizabeth S. Hayes
More than 85 familiar and exotic plants are illustrated and examined for legendary lore and current use. The book also includes 73 recipes, a spice chart, and tips for gardening, drying, freezing, and more.
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| |  Toll House Tried and True Recipes
by Ruth Graves Wakefield
Authentic recipes from the famous Massachusetts restaurant: popovers, veal and ham loaf, Toll House baked beans, chocolate cake, crumb pudding, much more. Nearly 700 recipes, including famous Toll House cookie recipe.
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Products in Cookbooks, Nutrition | | | | The American Frugal Housewife
by Lydia Maria Child
Simply written recipes for roasting a pig, preparing corned beef, hasty pudding, carrot pie, buffalo tongue, and scores of other dishes. Helpful suggestions for treating chilblains, dysentery, and other domestic concerns.
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|  | Austrian Cooking and Baking
by Gretel Beer
302 authentic recipes offer the best in Austrian home cooking: beef broth with dumplings, potato soup, kalbsgulash, four kinds of schnitzel, and more, including 171 dessert recipes.
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| |  | Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome
by Joseph Dommers Vehling, Apicius
Oldest known cookbook in existence offers readers a clear picture of what foods Romans ate and how they prepared them, from fig fed pork to rose pie. 49 illustrations.
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|  | Cooking for Absolute Beginners
by Muriel and Cortland Fitzsimmons
All the essentials of cooking in one, easy-to-follow book: pages of definitions; tables of measurements; use of kitchen tools; the use of seasonings; buying and cooking meats, fish, and vegetables; how to make basic sauces; and much more.
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|  | Cooking with Herbs and Spices
by Milo Miloradovich
Fact-filled, entertaining guide tells how to prepare and use hundreds of seasonings. Approximately 300 mouth-watering recipes from marinated lamb to spice cake.
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| | Decorative Napkin Folding for Beginners
by Lillian Oppenheimer, Natalie Epstein
22 different napkin folds enable even a beginner to make napkins in the shape of a heart, clown's hat, love knot, silverware holder, boot, etc. Photo of each finished napkin. 22 napkin folds, 63 drawings.
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|  | Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841
by Sarah Josepha Hale
Engagingly written volume filled with scores of nutritious recipes and wide-ranging suggestions for the mid-19th-century housekeeper. Includes advice on selecting and preparing foods, health tips, cleaning accessories, dealing with help, and more.
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|  | Early American Herb Recipes
by Alice Cooke Brown
Charming text gives more than 500 authentic recipes for medicinal, culinary, cosmetic, and other purposes — everything from cancer and palsy treatments to gravies, sauces, and pies. 113 black-and-white illustrations.
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|  | Favorite Swedish Recipes
by Selma Wifstrand
200 of the best Swedish dishes, from typical smorgasbord items — pickled herring, creamed lobster — to classic main dishes — roast lamb, baked eel — to traditional breads and pastries.
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| |  | A First Cookbook for Children
by Evelyne Johnson, Christopher Santoro
Helpful introduction includes a basic list of necessary ingredients and equipment, cooking hints, and sample menus. Total of 60 recipes: pizza, hamburgers, salads, cookies, cakes, macaroni and cheese, much more.
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|  | The First Jewish-American Cookbook
by Mrs. Esther Levy
A remarkable culinary and historical document, this 1871 volume offers tasty, reasonably simple, and economical recipes, in addition to housekeeping advice, suggestions for daily menus, and a Jewish calendar.
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|  | Food and Drink
by Jim Harter
Over 350 illustrations of different foods, people eating, utensils, banquets, menus, wine lists. Beautifully reproduced 19th-century line drawings depict every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation, display, and consumption of food and drink.
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|  | The Food and Drink of Mexico
by George C. Booth
This book shows you how to make outstanding Mexican dishes such as enchiladas, tacos, guacamole, refried beans, or tamales, plus soups, salads, and much more. Also recipes for 54 delightful drinks. 252 recipes in all.
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|  | Food and Drink: A Book of Quotations
by Susan L. Rattiner
Scores of humorous, frequently incisive remarks by famous writers, humorists, and celebrities, including W. K. Chesterton, W. C. Fields, Julia Child, Marilyn Monroe, George Bernard Shaw, Robert Morley, and many more.
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| |  | Growing and Using Herbs and Spices
by Milo Miloradovich
Versatile handbook provides all the information needed for cultivation and use of all the herbs and spices available in North America. 4 illustrations. Index. Glossary.
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|  | Hawaiian Cookbook
by Roana and Gene Schindler
Nearly 300 recipes include: sea bass with pine nuts, Lomi Lomi salmon, passion fruit soup, watercress soup, stuffed chicken breasts in pineapple sauce, chestnut duck, island shrimp salad, much more.
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|  | How to Buy Food for Economy and Quality
by U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Information-packed book shows how to buy the best economically, describes most common foods, gives you tips on what to buy, and shows what to look. Over 100 illustrations.
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