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Community Cookbooks: An Online Collection

1860-1879 Cookbooks

These cookbooks were published in the early years of the community cookbook in America. The titles listed below link to fuller bibliographic information in the Library of Congress Online Catalog. Links to additional online content are provided when available.

Poetical Cook-Book by Maria J. Moss, dedicated to the Sanitary Fair held in June 1865, Philiadelphia, Pennsylvania
Call Number: TX715.M913
Published/Created: 1864, Philadelphia, PA
144 pages.
Available online from Library of Congress
Bavarchi-khana by the Light Bearers of the Church of the Pilgrims, for Ladies, Zenana Fair 1872, Brooklyn, New York
Call Number: TX715.B353
Published/Created: 1872, Brooklyn, NY
34 pages.
Available online from Library of Congress
California Recipe Book by the Ladies of California, San Francisco, California
Call Number: TX715.C153
Published/Created: 1872, San Francisco, CA
45 pages.
Available online from Library of Congress
Choice Receipts by the best manuscripts authorities, published toward the erection of a girls school at Walla Walla, Washington Territory
Call Number: TX715.C557 Bitting Collection, Rare Books & Special Collections
Published/Created: 1873, Hartford, CT
2nd and revised ed. 68 pages.
Available online from Hathi Trust
Grand Rapids Receipt Book by the Ladies of the Congregational Church, for the Ladies Fair held at Luce’s Hall May 15th-17th, 1871, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Call Number: TX715.G751
Published/Created: 1873, Grand Rapids, MI
New ed. 51 pages.
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Presbyterian Cook Book, by the Ladies of the First Presbyterian Church, Dayton, Ohio
Call Number: TX715.D273
Published/Created: 1873, Dayton, OH
183 pages.
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Home Cook Book of Chicago, Tried and True Recipes by the Ladies of Chicago and other cities and towns, published for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Illinois
Call Number: TX715.W131
Published/Created: 1874, Chicago, IL
288 pages.
Available online from Hathi Trust
Kansas Home Cook-Book by the Ladies of Leavenworth, and other cities and towns, published by the Board of Managers for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless, Leavenworth, Kansas
Call Number: TX715.K16
Published/Created: 1874, Leavenworth, KS
264 pages.
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Portsmouth Momumental Cook Book by the Ladie's of the Solider's Aid Society of Portsmouth, Ohio
Call Number: TX715.P861 Ft. Meade do not serve
Published/Created: 1874, Portsmouth, OH
185 pages.
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Practical Receipts of Experienced Housekeepers by the Ladies of the Seventh Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati, Ohio
Call Number: TX715.C574
Published/Created: 1874, Cincinnati, OH
191 pages.
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Cook Book of the Northwest by the Ladies of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Keokuk, Iowa
Call Number: TX715.K375
Published/Created: 1875, Keokuk, IA
156 pages.
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Housekeeping in the Blue Grass by the Ladies of the Presbyterian Church, Paris, Kentucky
Call Number: TX715.P226
Published/Created: 1875, Cincinnati, OH
188 pages.
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"76" A Cook Book by the Ladies of Plymouth Church, Des Moines, Iowa
Call Number: TX715.D464
Published/Created: 1876, Des Moines, IA
278 pages.
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Centennial Buckeye Cook Book by the Women of the First Congregational Church, Marysville, Ohio
Call Number: TX715.W661
Published/Created: 1876, Marysville, OH
384 pages.
Available online from Internet Archive
Home Cook Book; Tried, Tested, Proved by the Ladies of Chicago and other cities and towns: originally published for the benefit of the Home for the Friendless, Chicago, Illinois
Call Number: TX715.W133
Published/Created: 1876, Chicago, IL
3rd ed. 398 pages.
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Tried and True Recipes, The Home Cook Book by Mrs. Frances Delavan Jermaine, compiled by the Ladies of Toledo and other cities; published for the joint benefit of the home of the Friendless Women and the Orphan's Home, Toledo, Ohio
Call Number: TX715.J57 Cabin Branch do not serve
Published/Created: 1876, Toledo, OH
2nd ed. 304 pages.
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Gulf City Cook Book by the Ladies of the St. Francis Street Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Mobile, Alabama
Call Number: TX715.M689
Published/Created: 1878, Dayton, OH
252 pages.
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Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union Cuisine by the Ladies of the M.W.C.T.U. in aid of the fair in Horticultural Hall, April 22, 1878, Boston, Massachusetts
Call Number: TX715.W872
Published/Created: 1878, Boston, MA
127 pages.
Available online from Library of Congress