Period Cookbooks

A Lady. Domestic Economy and Cookery for the rich and poor. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green. 1827.

Beeton, Isabella. Beeton’s Book of Household Management. London: S. O. Beeton Publishing, 1861.

Borella. The Court and Country Confectioner: Or, the House-keepers Guide ; to a More Speedy, Plain, and Familiar Method of Understanding the Whole Art of Confectionary … A New Edition. To Which Is Added, a Dissertation on the Different Species of Fruits, and the Art of Distilling … By Mr. Borella ..London: Printed for G. Riley, 1772.

Briggs, Richard. The New Art of Cookery; According to the Present Practice: Being a Complete Guide to All Housekeepers, on a Plan Entirely New; Consisting of Thirty-eight Chapters. … With Bills of Fare for Every Month in the Year, Neatly and Correctly Printed.Philadelphia:: Printed for H. & P. Rice, and Sold by J. Rice and Baltimore., 1798.

Clermont, B., and Menon. The Professed Cook ; Or, the Modern Art of Cookery, Pastry, and Confectionary, Made Plain and Easy … including a Translation of Les Soupers De La Cour … By B. Clermont … The Third Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged. London: W. Davis, Etc., 1776.

Cooke, John Conrade. Cookery and confectionery.   London : W. Simpkin, and R. Marshall, 1824.

Eales, Mary. Mrs. Mary Eales’s Receipts: Confectioner to Her Late Majesty Queen Anne. London: 1733 (first ed. 1718)

Emy, M. L’Art de bien faire les glaces d’office; ou Les vrais principes pour congeler tous les rafraichissemens. Paris, 1768.

Francatellli, Charles Elme’. The Modern Cook: A Practical Guide to the Culinary Art in All Its Branches, Comprising, in Addition to English Cookery, the Most Approved and Recherché Systems of French, Italian, and German Cookery ; Adapted as Well for the Largest Establishments as for the Use of Private Families..   London, New Burlington Street: Richard Bentley. 1846.

Gillier, Joseph. Le Cannameliste Français (1751). Reprint: *Nancy: Le veuve Leclerc, 1768.

Glasse, Hannah. The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy: Which Far Exceeds Any Thing of the Kind Ever Yet Published … London: Printed for the Author, and Sold at Mrs. Ashburn’s, a China Shop, the Corner of Fleet-Ditch, 1747.

Glasse, Hannah. The Complete Confectioner.  London: West and Hughes, 1800.

Goodfellow, Mrs. Mrs. Goodfellow’s Cookery As it Should Be: A New Manual of the Dining Room And Kitchen … Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & brothers, 1865.

Marshall, A. B. Wheaton.  Mrs. A.B. Marshall’s cookery book. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co: Marshall’s School of Cookery, 1890.

Marshall, A. B. Wheaton.  The Book of Ices. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co: Marshall’s School of Cookery, 1888.

Nutt,  Frederick. The Complete Confectioner ; Or, the Whole Art of Confectionary: … By a Person, Late an Apprentice to the Well-known Messrs. Negri and Witten ..London: Printed for the Author, 1807.

Perkins, John. Every Woman Her Own Housekeeper; Of, the Ladies’ Library. London. 1790

Putnam, Elizabeth H. Mrs. Putnams Receipt Book: And Young Housekeeper’s Assistant (classic Reprint). Boston: Ticknor, Reeds and Fields. 1853

Raffald, Elizabeth. The Experienced English Housekeeper for the Use and Ease of Ladies, Housekeepers, Cooks, &c. Written Purely from Practice … Consisting of near Nine Hundred Original Receipts, Most of Which Never Appeared in Print. … The Tenth Edition. … By Elizabeth Raffald. London: Printed for R. Baldwin, 1786.

Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby. A New System of Domestic Cookery: Formed upon Principles of Economy, and Adapted to the Use of Private Families. A New ed. London: Printed for John Murray …, 1814.

Society of Artists of Great Britain. (1775). Valuable Secrets Concerning Arts and Trades: or Approved Directions From the Best Artists. London: Will Hay.

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