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• 18thC Cuisine

  http://18thccuisine.blogspot.com/
  Weblog exploring the cuisine and culture of Nouvelle France at the time of the French and Indian wars. Includes recipes and other articles.

• A Boke of Gode Cookery Recipes

  http://www.godecookery.com/goderec/goderec.htm
  James Matterer's collection of Medieval recipes translated and adapted for the modern cook.

• Ancient Egyptian Recipes

  http://www.ancientnile.co.uk/recipes.php
  Handful of recipes including Honey Omelette, Sweet Wine Cakes, and Hummus.

• Ancient Roman Recipes

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/ant-rom-coll.html
  Selection of recipes from Marcus Gavius Apicius' cookbook "De Re Coquinaria."

• Andalusian Cookbook

  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Andalusian/andalusian_contents.htm
  An anonymous Andalusian cookbook of the 13th century translated by Charles Perry.

• Around The Roman Table

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/233472.html
  Eight recipes from "Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome," by Patrick Faas.

• Byzantine Recipes

  http://www.godecookery.com/byznrec/byznrec.htm
  Seven reconstructed recipes served by the common people or middle classes.

• Cariadoc and Elizabeth's Recipes

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cariadoc/recipe_toc.html
  Medieval European and Near Eastern recipes worked out from period or almost-period sources.

• Cressee Recipe

  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/cressee/cressee_recipe.htm
  Illustrated recipe for an Anglo-Norman pie.

• Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project

  http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/
  Online collection of the most important 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks, viewable as page images.

• Food In Tudor England

  http://tudorhistory.org/topics/food/
  Food culture and recipes from the times of the Tudors (1485-1603), when foods from the New World were introduced.

• Hardtack

  http://www.kenanderson.net/hardtack/
  History with recipes of hardtack, the most convenient food for soldiers, explorers, and pioneers.

• Henry Notaker's Old Cookbooks and Food History

  http://www.notaker.com/old_onli.htm
  Excerpts from Norwegian cookbooks and links to websites pertaining to historical cookbooks.

• Medieval and Anglo Saxon Recipes

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/med-anglosaxon-coll.html
  Eight recipes taken from "The British Museum Cookbook" by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

• Medieval European Recipes

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~mjw/recipes/ethnic/historical/med-european-coll.html
  Six recipes taken from "The British Museum Cookbook" by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

• Medieval Recipes

  http://www.recipesource.com/misc/medieval/
  About twenty recipes at RecipeSource.com.

• Medieval Recipes

  http://www.bitwise.net/~ken-bill/med-p1.htm
  Favourite Medieval and Renaissance recipes adapted for the modern cook.

• Medieval Recipes from Various Sources

  http://members.tripod.com/BlackTauna/recipes.html
  Original texts of the recipes along with a modern workout.

• NOVA Online: Real Roman Recipes

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lostempires/roman/recipes.html
  Real Roman recipes for a day at the baths.

• Recipes and Rations

  http://timewitnesses.org/english/food/
  Eleven recipes from the last half of the last century (in English and German); from Timewitnesses.org.

• Recipes from the Twentieth Century

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/494071.html
  Sample recipes from the book Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren, with short introductory notes on the food fads involved.

• Regency Collection - Recipes

  http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~awoodley/recipes/order.html
  Recipes from authentic handwritten 'receipt' books of the 18th century.

• Sabina Welserin's Cookbook

  http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Medieval/Cookbooks/Sabrina_Welserin.html
  English translation of one of the oldest German cookbooks (1553).

• Some Recipes of al-Andalus

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/veggie.html
  Vegetarian recipes of Medieval Spain.

• The Doughboy Cookbook

  http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/food.htm
  A dozen recipes of a soldier's menu during the First World War, such as Hardtack, Bullets in a Pot, and S.O.S.

• The Forme of Cury

  http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/foc/
  Cookbook compiled around 1390 by the master-cooks of King Richard II, viewable as page images.

• The Medieval Kitchen - Recipes from France and Italy

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/706842.html
  Cookbook presentation with six sample recipes.

• The Renaissance at the Dinner Table

  http://www.nicomarin.com/ricette_e.htm
  Twenty seven Medieval and Renaissance recipes with notes.

• Two Fifteenth-Century Cookery-Books

  http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bibperm?q1=cookbk
  Middle English texts of two manuscripts, edited by Thomas Austin.

• Victoriana.com: 19th C. Cake Recipes

  http://www.victoriana.com/library/cake.html
  Eight cake recipes from Godey's Lady's Book, 1860.

• Vintage Cookbooks

  http://www.seasonalchef.com/historybook.htm
  Recipes from the 19th and early 20th century.

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