Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

[Cobalt60]

While searching for something related, I found the Michigan State University's http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/browse.html Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project site. From the home page:

The Michigan State University Library and the MSU Museum have partnered to create an online collection of some of the most influential and important American cookbooks from the late 18th to early 20th century. The goal of this project is to make these materials available to a wider audience.

Digital images of the pages of each cookbook are available as well as full-text transcriptions and the ability to search within the books, across the collection, in order to find specific information.

There's quite a few downloadable cookbooks (Using Firefox, I right clicked on the "View PDF" link and chose "Save Link As..." for the ones I wanted) that you can also just view onsite in either picture or html format. It's interesting stuff. I plan on looking through the ones I got and trying some of the recipes.

[K Frame]

Now THIS is frigging sweet!

[Werewolf]

Awesome site:

I checked out the Blue Grass cookbook (c 1904 - cooking KY style) to see if there were any BBQ recipes and found lots of neat recipes for Oysters of all things? Oysters in Kentucky. Who'da thunk it.

Good site. Especially interesting is reviewing the books in PDF and seeing how books looked 100+ years ago.

[charby]

I checked out the Blue Grass cookbook (c 1904 - cooking KY style) to see if there were any BBQ recipes and found lots of neat recipes for Oysters of all things? Oysters in Kentucky. Who'da thunk it.

Used to be a seasonal thing. Pack the fresh oysters in barrels full of ice and ship by train.