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economical cookery and thrifty meals34% of collection
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Modern practical cookery, pastry, confectionery, pickling and preserving [microform] : with a great variety of useful and economical receiptsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The economical cook book. Practical cookery book of to-day, with minute directions, how to buy, dress, cook, serve & carve, and 300 standard recipes for canning, preserving, curing ..Author: Classic Public Domain
Mrs. Beeton's household management : a guide to cookery in all branches : daily duties, menu making, mistress & servant, home doctor, hostess & guest, sick nursing, marketing, the nursery, trussing & carving, home lawyerAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The island of Formosa, past and present. History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productionsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Fifty-two Sunday dinners : a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining helpful suggestions for appetizing, well-balanced menus, with all the latest discoveries in the preparation of tasty, wholesome cookeryAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The American woman's home, or, Principles of domestic science : being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The international cook book; over 3,300 recipes gathered from all over the world, including many never before published in English. With complete ménus of the three meals for every day in the yearAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The farmer's own book; or, Family receipts for the husbandman and housewife; being a compilation of the very best receipts on agriculture, gardening, and cookery, with rules for keeping farmers' accountsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns : from King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary, also receipts in ancient cookeryAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The new housekeeper's manual: embracing a new revised edition of the American woman's home; or, Principles of domestic science. Being a guide to economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The compendium of cookery and reliable recipes. Two complete volumes in one ... with the Book of knowledge ... As preparedAuthor: Mrs. E. C. Blakeslee ... Emma Leslie ... and Dr. S. H. Hughes
Mrs. Beeton's cookery book : a household guide all about cookery, household work, marketing, prices, provisions, trussing, serving, carving, menus, etc., etc. With new coloured and other illustrationsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The London art of cookery and domestic housekeepers' complete assistant : uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and economy : and adapted to the use of servants, and families of every description ...Author: Classic Public Domain
Meals medicinal ?with 'herbal simples, ' (of edible parts) curative foods from the cook ; in place of drugs from the chemist.Author: Classic Public Domain
The home guide; or, A bookAuthor: 500 ladies, embracing about 1,000 recipes and hints, pertaining to cookery, the household, the sick room, the toilet, etc
The Pillsbury cookbook :containing more than three hundred recipes with illustrations and menus, selected for their adaptability to the needs of the economical American housewife, with a popular educaAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The Boston Cooking-school cook book; two thousand one hundred and seventeen recipes covering the whole range of cookery, and one hundred and thirty-two half-tone illustrationsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The spirit of cookery. A popular treatise on the history, science, practice, and ethical and medical import of culinary artAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... : to which are added,Author: way of appendix, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index
The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table : being a complete system of cookery ... including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds ...Author: Classic Public Domain
The hearthstone; or, Life at home. A household manual. Containing hints and helps for home making; home furnishing; decorations; amusements ... together with a complete cookery bookAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The early English customs system; a documentary study of the institutional and economical history of the customs from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuryAuthor: Classic Public Domain
The art of cookery made easy and refined: comprising ample directions for preparing every article requisite for furnishing the tables of the nobleman, gentleman, and tradesmanAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Mrs. Fryer's loose-leaf cook book : a complete cook book giving economical recipes planned to meet the needs of the modern housekeeper ...Author: Classic Public Domain
The Laurel health cookery : a collection of practical suggestions and recipes for the preparation of non-flesh foods in palatable and attractive waysAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household managementAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Marion Harland's complete cook book; a practical and exhaustive manual of cookery and housekeeping, containing thousands of carefully proved recipes ..Author: Classic Public Domain
Soyer's culinary campaign : being historical reminiscences of the late war : with the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc., etc.Author: Classic Public Domain
Primitive cookery; or the kitchen garden display'd: containing a collection of receipts for preparing a great variety of cheap, healthful and palatable dishes, without either fish, flesh, or fowl.... 1767Author: Classic Public Domain
Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific OceanAuthor: Classic Public Domain
War time cookery: a collection of recipes that will not only reduce the high cost of living but are especially adapted to wheatless and meatless daysAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Eating for strength: a book comprising: 1.--The science of eating. 2.--Receipts for wholesome cookery. 3.--Receipts for wholesome drinks. 4.--Answers to ever recurring questionsAuthor: Classic Public Domain
A flora of the state of New-York : comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state : with remarks on their economical and medicinal propertiesAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Grammar of the French language; being one of a series of grammars constructed on a simple and economical plan, and constituting a general system of educationAuthor: Classic Public Domain
Economical Cookery and Thrifty Meals Book Collection
Discover 125 carefully selected public-domain books about economical cookery and thrifty meals. This focused archive brings together practical manuals, illustrated references and important historical works in one searchable collection.
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Home cookery in war-time
The royal baker and pastry cook; a manual of practical cookery
Guide for nut cookery; together with a brief history of nuts and their food values
Five cent meals ...
Cassell's dictionary of cookery : containing about nine thousand recipes
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Modern practical cookery, pastry, confectionery, pickling and preserving [microform] : with a great variety of useful and economical receipts
Mrs. Porter's new southern cookery book, and companion for frugal and economical housekeepers;
Easy French cookery, containing over 300 economical and attractive recipes from a celebrated chef's note-book
The Englishwoman's cookery book : being a collection of economical recipes taken from her "Book of household management"
The economical cook book. Practical cookery book of to-day, with minute directions, how to buy, dress, cook, serve & carve, and 300 standard recipes for canning, preserving, curing ..
Economical cookery
The profession of cookery, from a French point of view : with some economical practices peculiar to the nation
How to plan meals in war time, with economical menus and suggestions for marketing
Soyer's standard cookery; a complete guide to the art of cooking dainty, varied, and economical dishes for the household
A guide to modern cookery
Diabetic cookery; recipes and menus
Mrs. Beeton's household management : a guide to cookery in all branches : daily duties, menu making, mistress & servant, home doctor, hostess & guest, sick nursing, marketing, the nursery, trussing & carving, home lawyer
The Art Of Cookery
The island of Formosa, past and present. History, people, resources, and commercial prospects. Tea, camphor, sugar, gold, coal, sulphur, economical plants, and other productions
The Indian cookery book: a practical handbook to the kitchen in India : adapted to the three presidencies ...
The Glasgow cookery book
Hungarian specialities cookery book
Five cent meals ...
Fifty-two Sunday dinners : a book of recipes, arranged on a unique plan, combining helpful suggestions for appetizing, well-balanced menus, with all the latest discoveries in the preparation of tasty, wholesome cookery
Two fifteenth-century cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55
The royal baker and pastry cook; a manual of practical cookery
English cookery books to the year 1850
Early English meals and manners : with some forewords on education in Early England
Food and cookery for the sick and convalescent
German cookery for the American home
Two fifteenth-century cookery-books ...
Camp cookery
Simple Italian cookery
The American woman's home, or, Principles of domestic science : being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes
Cookery in the public schools
The international cook book; over 3,300 recipes gathered from all over the world, including many never before published in English. With complete ménus of the three meals for every day in the year
Home cookery in war-time
The farmer's own book; or, Family receipts for the husbandman and housewife; being a compilation of the very best receipts on agriculture, gardening, and cookery, with rules for keeping farmers' accounts
Dixie cookery; or, How I managed my table for twelve years. A practical cook-book for southern housekeepers
Chinese cookery in the home kitchen; being recipes for the preparation of the most popular Chinese dishes at home.
Culinary jottings : a treatise in thirty chapters on reformed cookery for Anglo-Indian rites ...
A collection of ordinances and regulations for the government of the royal household, made in divers reigns : from King Edward III to King William and Queen Mary, also receipts in ancient cookery
German national cookery for American kitchens : a practical book of the art of cooking as performed in Germany
The new housekeeper's manual: embracing a new revised edition of the American woman's home; or, Principles of domestic science. Being a guide to economical, healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes
The cheap cottage and small house : a manual of economical building
Cooking for profit : a new American cookbook adapted for the use of all who serve meals for a price
The English and Australian cookery book : cookery for the many, as well as for the "upper ten thousand"
The compendium of cookery and reliable recipes. Two complete volumes in one ... with the Book of knowledge ... As prepared by Mrs. E. C. Blakeslee ... Emma Leslie ... and Dr. S. H. Hughes
The art of cookery, made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind ever yet published ...
Guide for nut cookery; together with a brief history of nuts and their food values
Cassell's dictionary of cookery : containing about nine thousand recipes
Practical American cookery and domestic economy
Standard paper-bag cookery
Resources of the southern fields and forests, medical, economical, and agricultural;
A new book of cookery : eight hundred and sixty recipes, covering the whole range of cookery ...
Martha Washington cook book : a compendium of cookery and reliable recips
Mrs. Beeton's cookery book : a household guide all about cookery, household work, marketing, prices, provisions, trussing, serving, carving, menus, etc., etc. With new coloured and other illustrations
The Natco suburban house and garage : attractive economical durable fireproof
The London art of cookery and domestic housekeepers' complete assistant : uniting the principles of elegance, taste, and economy : and adapted to the use of servants, and families of every description ...
Meatless cookery, with special reference to diet for heart disease, blood pressure and autointoxication;
Meals medicinal ?with 'herbal simples, ' (of edible parts) curative foods from the cook ; in place of drugs from the chemist.
The home guide; or, A book by 500 ladies, embracing about 1,000 recipes and hints, pertaining to cookery, the household, the sick room, the toilet, etc
The Pillsbury cookbook :containing more than three hundred recipes with illustrations and menus, selected for their adaptability to the needs of the economical American housewife, with a popular educa
Domestic French cookery
Indian cookery and confectionery (407 recipes)
Mrs. Beeton's every-day cookery
Elements of the theory and practice of cookery : a text-book of household science for use in schools
Low-cost meals for high-cost times ..
The Boston Cooking-school cook book; two thousand one hundred and seventeen recipes covering the whole range of cookery, and one hundred and thirty-two half-tone illustrations
The spirit of cookery. A popular treatise on the history, science, practice, and ethical and medical import of culinary art
American cookery
Miss Leslie's complete cookery. Directions for cookery, in its various branches
The book of potato cookery
Hungary and Transylvania : with remarks on their condition, social, political and economical
The art of cookery made plain and easy : which far exceeds any thing of the kind yet published ... : to which are added, by way of appendix, one hundred and fifty new and useful receipts, and a copious index
Cookery book
Three meals a day. Recipe review
Pot-luck ; or, The British home cookery book; over a thousand recipes from old family ms. books
Meals for the million: the people's cook-book
A new system of domestic cookery : formed upon principles of economy, and adapted to the use of private families
The cookery book of Lady Clark of Tillypronie
Cookery for the million [microform] : with useful hints to housewives
The lady's assistant for regulating and supplying the table : being a complete system of cookery ... including the fullest and choicest receipts of various kinds ...
Elementary Home Economics: First Lessons in Sewing and Textiles, Foods and Cookery and the Care of the House
Grace before meals; brief prayers arranged for each day in the year;
Economical war-time cook book
War-time cookery, practical recipes designed to aid in the conservation movement
The hearthstone; or, Life at home. A household manual. Containing hints and helps for home making; home furnishing; decorations; amusements ... together with a complete cookery book
Larger cookery book of extra recipes
Potato cookery : 300 ways of preparing and cooking potatoes
The early English customs system; a documentary study of the institutional and economical history of the customs from the thirteenth to the sixteenth century
The Indian Cookery Book
Paper-bag cookery : with nearly two hundred recipes
The universal common sense cookery book. Practical recipes for household use ..
The art of cookery made easy and refined: comprising ample directions for preparing every article requisite for furnishing the tables of the nobleman, gentleman, and tradesman
The wife's help to Indian cookery : being a practical manual for housekeepers
Mrs. Fryer's loose-leaf cook book : a complete cook book giving economical recipes planned to meet the needs of the modern housekeeper ...
The Laurel health cookery : a collection of practical suggestions and recipes for the preparation of non-flesh foods in palatable and attractive ways
The white ribbon cook book : a collection of original and revised recipes in cookery and housekeeping
Mrs. Seely's cook book; a manual of French and American cookery, with chapters on domestic servants, their rights and duties and many other details of household management
Practical gastronomy and culinary dictionary : with which is incorporated 'Recherché cookery'
Marion Harland's complete cook book; a practical and exhaustive manual of cookery and housekeeping, containing thousands of carefully proved recipes ..
Soyer's culinary campaign : being historical reminiscences of the late war : with the plain art of cookery for military and civil institutions, the army, navy, public, etc., etc.
Quantity cookery : menu planning and cookery for large numbers
Happy homes and the hearts that make them : or, Thrifty people and why they thrive
Primitive cookery; or the kitchen garden display'd: containing a collection of receipts for preparing a great variety of cheap, healthful and palatable dishes, without either fish, flesh, or fowl.... 1767
Kitchen French; a dictionary of terms used in cookery
Camp cookery : a cookery and equipment handbook for Boy scouts and other campers
Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
One hundred-portion war time recipes; wheatless, economical, tested
War time cookery: a collection of recipes that will not only reduce the high cost of living but are especially adapted to wheatless and meatless days
The dessert book : a complete manual from the best American and foreign authorities. With original economical recipes
French cookery: comprising L'art de la cuisine francaise, Le patissier royal, Le cuisinier parisien
The ideal cookery book
Report of the geological survey of North Carolina. Vol. I. Physical geography, resumé, economical geology
Economical Italian cook book
Lady Young's cookery book : tried and tested recipes
War economy in food, with suggestions and recipes for substitutions in the planning of meals
The mem sahib's book of cookery
Eating for strength: a book comprising: 1.--The science of eating. 2.--Receipts for wholesome cookery. 3.--Receipts for wholesome drinks. 4.--Answers to ever recurring questions
A flora of the state of New-York : comprising full descriptions of all the indigenous and naturalized plants hitherto discovered in the state : with remarks on their economical and medicinal properties
Mrs. A.B. Marshall's larger cookery book of extra recipes
The cyanide process, its practical application and economical results
The plain sailing cook book; a collection of simple recipes for beginners in cookery
Buckeye cookery, and practical housekeeping : compiled from original recipes
Balanced meals with recipes : food values, drying and cold pack canning, menus, with and without meat, box luncheons
Beeton's every-day cookery and housekeeping book : a practical and useful guide for all mistresses and servants
Grammar of the French language; being one of a series of grammars constructed on a simple and economical plan, and constituting a general system of education
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