Published in Boston in 1857, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was written by Mary Mann, wife of Horace Mann, to demonstrate how to prepare foods that are healthful, nutritious, and appealing to the Christian appetite. Mary Mann, one of the famous Peabody sisters—reformers and pioneers of modern educational theory—believed that good digestion…
When this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was published in 1857, the American “West” was in Indiana, making this cookbook the first to be published in Indiana. This first cookbook published in Indiana was originally titled in its first edition Mrs. Collins’ Table Receipts: Adapted to Western Housewifery. It became so popular that…
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was published in Cleveland in 1842. An early example of regional American cookery, it is believed to be the first cookbook printed west of the Alleghenies, and the recipes emphasize local specialties. Although there is no biography available for author Philomelia Ann Maria Antoinette Hardin, the subtitle…
First published in Boston in 1828, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was America’s first baking cookbook and the first to organize recipes by listing ingredients at the beginning of each recipe separate from the directions, as opposed to being lumped together in a narrative paragraph. Eliza Leslie’s Seventy-five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes,…
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was published in Malden, Massachusetts, in 1863 and presents the authors’ new, scientifically based system of improving baked goods by mixing other dry ingredients (cream of tartar, baking soda) into the flour in advance. An early use of “prepared flour” in American cooking. As the scientific revolution…
Published in 1853 in Philadelphia, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is a general cookbook containing over 500 recipes characterized by excellent, easily understood directions and written by a highly educated (unusual for her time) Quaker woman who was also an accomplished astronomer. Born in 1811 to a prominent Philadelphia Quaker family, Hannah…
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in Richmond, Virginia, in 1861, was written by Florence Nightingale and published both in the North (by order of the surgeon general) and the South during the Civil War to improve the diets and nursing care provided to soldiers in the field and military hospitals and…
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1877, is a cookbook, patent medicine advertisement, and medical manual all combined in one small volume published by the manufacturer of a well-known and widely used nineteenth century home remedy, Atwood’s Bitters. Historical records assert that in 1840 Moses Atwood of Boston…
Published in 1882 in Brenham Texas, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection was the first cookbook published in Texas. Although many sources cite The Texas Cook Book by the Ladies Association of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston (1883) as the first cookbook published in Texas, Caroline Chase’s slim volume was published a year earlier…
Published in New York in 1870, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection is fascinating and sophisticated, a scientific treatise on eating correctly to maintain a healthy body by a pioneer in the field of nutritional science and homeopathic medicine. In this fascinating volume, which contains material from his second book, How Not to…
This volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection, published in New York in 1870, recommended a diet of simple, natural foods consisting almost exclusively of grains, fruits, and vegetables, a return to the more virtuous eating habits of earlier American history that might have been written today. Cowan’s earlier works dealt with sexual hygiene and…
Published in Philadelphia in 1828, this volume in the American Antiquarian Cookbook Collection contains an encyclopedic compilation of methods and concoctions, including recipes, for every possible endeavor in family domestic life in the nineteenth century. The details of Mary Holland’s life are not available, but we do know that The Modern Family Receipt Book was…