Culinary History Online

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This historic cooking web site contains thousands of links pertaining to open hearth, bake oven, wood stove and other pre WWI forms of cooking and related subjects. Included are approximately 600 e-text historic cookbooks and about 300 museums with cooking demonstrations.
Other topics range from mills which grind and sell flours/cornmeals to inventories, glossaries, art, and more which are on the web. Monthly topics deal with various subjects such as Rumford Baking Powder, Macaroni machines, Butter preserving, Acorn mush, Frost Fairs, Camp cookery, Fools, Salmagundi, Sherdoon, Fish Pond, Hay, and Pepper Pot.
I will continue to add sites to the links lists and new topics. The photographs were taken by me unless otherwise stated. Please contact me, (e-mail at bottom of this page) with any additions or corrections.... Pat Reber

Visiting Museums

Demonstrations - at museums
Classes - Open hearth cooking classes at museums

Researching

Cookbooks online - by Date and Author
Glossaries, Timelines, and Historic Measurements
Probate Inventories online
Newspapers, Manuscripts, Government Docs online
Library Collections, Archives and Historical Societies
Article - Research at the Library of Congress
Herbals and early garden books
Receipt manuscripts in print and online
Articles - Research using historic culinary e-text collections

HFSDV Newsletter

HFSDV Newsletter links

Cooking implements

Fireless Cookers
Beehive ovens
Squirrel-tail bake ovens
Cookstoves, Wood cookstoves, Closed cast iron ranges
Kitchen Ranges or Range Cookers
Smoke jacks, clockwork jacks, steam jacks; spits
Stew stoves, stew pot ranges, stew holes, set kettle sites
Rumford Kitchens: roaster, fireplace, range, stove
Cooking and eating utensils - Online Galleries

Related to historic cooking

Culinary Historians Groups & historic food websites
Art, photos, images of food/cooking/dining
Stocking the Larder - Suppliers of historical food Ingredients
Grist Mills still operating, selling flours/meal/grits
Slaves and Indentured Servants
Markets & Historic Food Prices
Teacher Resourses K-12
Care and preservation of kitchenware
Dressing the part: Pictures, Patterns, Dry goods
Historic Menus
Podcasts on Food History

Monthly topics

Calendar of events
Recipe of the Month - Chirstmas menus/bill of fares
Picture of the Month - Robert Burns kitchen/birthplace
Past Pictures of the Month
Past Recipes of the Month

Recipes

Wartime rations and homefront rationing, victory gardens
BEVERAGES: Cocoa, Beer, Egg Nog, Wassail, Iced Tea, Mint Juleps
CAKES: Twelfth Night, Wedding, Beet, Ice Cream, Lafayette, Pilgrim, Election, Washington, Madison, Cup Cakes
COOKIES: New Years, Beet, Jackson Jumbles, Picnic Cakes
PIES: Pumpkin, Coffins, Beet, Christmas/Yorkshire, Peacock
PUDDINGS: Plum, Fayette, Pilgrim, Tyler
Historic recipes online

Contact: patreber@hearthcook.com