Glossaries,Timelines, and Heirloom Measurements

Glossaries

Glossary of Medieval Cooking Terms
A Dictionary of Middle-English Cooking Terms
Glossary of Medieval & Renaissance Culinary Terms
Glossary of Cookery and other terms - Prospect Books
Glossary of Colonial Terms
Glossary at Feeding America
The Victorian Dictionary. Food & Drink
Dictionary of the Scots Language (151 entries for Haggis)
Food lexicon (English, French, German, Danish, Dutch, Spanish and Swedish, among others)
English=German Vocabulary of Culinary Terms. Henriette Davidis' Practical Cook Book. Milwaukee: 1897
Glossarium/Glossary Dutch/English

The Gaelic Names of Plants. John Cameron. Edinburgh: 1883
Times when things are in season. Mrs. Beeton, 1861

Glossary of Ancient Diseases
Glossary of Diseases
Glossary of antique medical tools & early terms for diseases

Ingredients - What's period where? 1200-1600
Statistics of ingredients from Medieval cookbooks

Culinary Timelines

Culinary history timeline: social history, manners & menus
The Food timeline with links to ingredients and recipes before 17000 BC -current
Food History Timeline, 6000 BC -
Intute Timeline - History of food

Heirloom Measurements

Heirloom Weights & Measures Conversion Chart
Heirloom Measurements
Commerce Standards (Common weights & measures... years 732- )
Plan for establishing uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States. 1790 by Thomas Jefferson
Leslie, Eliza. Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes, and Sweetmeats. 1832. [c1828]
Leslie, Eliza. Directions...1840 [c1837]
Lee. The cooks own. 1832
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell. The Good Housekeeper. 1839
Murray's modern cookery book. Modern domestic cookery, by a lady London 1851
Farmer, Fannie Merritt. The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. 1896
Fullständigaste Svensk-Amerikansk Kokbok Swedish-English Cookbook. Chicago: 1897
Table of Weights And Measures
Equivalents for one unit and fractions of a unit




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