Public Domain Recipe Books

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There are some wonderful public domain cookbooks freely available. You can find them at sites such as archive.org and Google Books.

Many of the World War I (and World War II) cookbooks had recipes and tips for dealing with shortages and substituting ingredients.

Here are some of the public domain cookbooks I've shared with the homeaide mailing list. For more information on the mailing list or recipes tips and tricks, see http://www.distasis.com/recipes

What's interesting about some of these cookbooks is that many of the titles are just as relevant today as when they were published. There are tried and true recipes, thrifty recipes and recipes for avoiding certain ingredients like wheat and meats.

You can use Open Source programs like
mupdf ( http://www.mupdf.com/ ),
sumatra ( http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/ ) and/or
fbreader ( http://www.fbreader.org/ )
to read them.

A Thousand Ways to Please a Family with Bettina's Best Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=F-EqAAAAYAAJ&dq=recipes+holidays&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Two Hundred and Seventy-five War-time Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=EV0EAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Tempting Dishes for Small Incomes...
http://books.google.com/books?id=f8rqTkakRhgC&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Wheatless and Meatless Menus and Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=Y3AEAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Wheatless and Meatless Days
http://books.google.com/books?id=2v4YAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Just for Two: A Collection of Recipes Designed for Two Persons
http://books.google.com/books?id=QfopAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Recipes for Quantity Service
http://books.google.com/books?id=DmEvAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Recipes for Using Canned Goods
http://books.google.com/books?id=i5JCAQAAIAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Tried and Approved Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=F3EEAAAAQAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Tested Maryland Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=GwkZAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Handbook of Recipes as Used in the Course in Home Economics in Columbus Public Schools
http://books.google.com/books?id=a_opAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Our New England Family Recipes
http://books.google.com/books?id=ogkZAAAAYAAJ&source=gbs_navlinks_s

High-class Cookery Recipes: As Taught in the School
http://books.google.com/books?id=qPIHAAAAQAAJ&dq=recipes+holidays&source=gbs_navlinks_s

Twentieth Century Club War Time Cook Book
https://books.google.com/books?id=Nl0EAAAAYAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&ppis=_e&dq=twentieth+century+club+war+time+cook+book&source=gbs_navlinks_s

The New Cookery: a book of recipes, most of which are in use at the Battle Creek Sanitarium
https://books.google.com/books?id=351BAQAAIAAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&hl=en

Public Domain books from the Cookbook and Home Economics Collection at archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/cbk?and%5B%5D=public+domain