General Resource Sites

• 1860's Foods: Union, Confederate & on the Frontier 
  Excerpted authentic cooking information and recipes from the North Collins (NY) Historical Society book by the same name.
• Ancestral Recipes 
• Ancient Faces - Recipes 
  Preserving and sharing family legacies through old photographs, stories, and recipes.
• Collecting Cookbooks 
  Collecting 19th century cookbooks is my way of connecting to the history of my own family and those I want to learn more about.
• Creating an Heirloom: Writing Your Family's Cookbook 
  A booko with tips, tricks and ideas for creating your own family cookbook and preserving your family's recipes.
• Family Reunion Recipes 
  From Better Homes and Gardens magazine.
• FamilyWeb Cafe 
  Online community to share ethnic and traditional family recipes, family history and family-oriented links.
• Farmer, Fannie Merritt. 1918. The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book 
  Online version of the 1918 edition.
• Favorite Family Recipes - From the Gene Pool 
• The Food Timeline 
• Genealogy from TheOldenTimes.com: Historic Newspapers Online 
  This online "newspaper" is made up of scanned articles from old U. S. newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes news, obituaries, marriage and birth notices, advertising, and an index of names.
  • Antique Recipes from Old Newspapers: Just Like Great-Grandmother's Home Cooking! 
• Grandma's Kitchen - Recipes That Span Generations 
• Heritage Recipes 
  Website collects old recipes and the memories related to the recipe.
• Homespun-Country Kitchen 
  Companion web site to the Homespun Mailing List.
• Old & Treasured Recipes 
  From the Treasure Maps site.
• Once Upon A Thyme 
  Family History Stories, Heirloom Recipes, Obituaries, and a collection of old letters. Surnames: Abrahams, Eldridge, Norton, Thomas.
• Online Archive of American Folk Medicine 
  Searchable database of home made treatments for a variety of ailments.

Locality & Ethnic Specific

• An Alberta Family Cookbook 
  A "5 Generation" searchable family cookbook with links to family tree pages.
• Authentic Berks County Recipes 
  Pennsylvania Dutch cooking.
• The Columbian Recipes Methodist Cookbook 
  Contains scanned images of all the advertisements from a cookbook published in Akron, Ohio in 1893 and an index of all names found in the cookbook.
• Culinary Historians of Chicago  ~ Illinois
• Germans from Russia Recipe Database 
  From the The NDSU Libraries Germans from Russia Heritage Collection.
• Recipes Page 
  Swedish and Norwegian recipes from Jerry Longstrom's home page.
• Serving Oregon 
  An original cookbook from the graduate students of Willamette University. The cookbook includes 100 traditional and original family recipes all collected from family and friends within the state of Oregon. It also includes fun facts and stories for your reading pleasure. The books has been produced as a small business project and all proceeds goes to YMCA.
• This is no fish tale: Gefilte tastes tell story of ancestry 
  Onlne article from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Explains the geographic divide between taste preferences in gefilte fish in Eastern Europe as well as other clues to Jewish geographic origins including prayer books, head coverings, and tombstone shapes.

Mailing Lists, Newsgroups & Chat

• Genealogy Resources on the Internet - Family Histories, Folklore, and Artifacts Mailing Lists 
  Most of the mailing list links below point to this site, wonderfully maintained by John Fuller. John indexes links for all known genealogy mailing lists, including RootsWeb and others.
• RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists 
  The majority of genealogy mailing lists are hosted by RootsWeb.com. Messages on RootsWeb lists are archived. The links to RootsWeb below point you to the archives (browse or search).

• FOLKLORE Mailing List 
  A mailing list for the exchange of folklore - folk medicine and recipes.
• GEN-TRIVIA-UNIVERSAL Mailing List 
  For genealogy trivia collected from any country. This is an offshoot of the GEN-TRIVIA-ENG list where one can share ancestral recipes, poems, rhymes, ditties, slang words, sayings, etc.
• GRANNYS-NA-PANTRY Mailing List 
  A mailing list where Native American people can share recipes, remedies, memories, and stories of what their grannys taught and contributed to their families.
• HOMESPUN Mailing List 
  For those who want to have a bit of fun reminiscing. Subscribers are welcome to share memories, traditions, poems, humor, stories, recipes, folklore and home remedies.

Publications, Software & Supplies

• Cyndi's List Genealogy Bookstore 
  A categorized list of genealogy research books that looks a lot like my bookshelf at home.

• Amazon.com Genealogy Bookstore - Heritage Cooking 
  The following are individual book titles of interest for this topic. The book links below point to the Amazon.com bookstore online where you may purchase the book if you wish. These links are provided to bring these published resources to your attention as an aid to your research. Follow the links to books of interest to make note of their title, author, publisher, and ISBN. You might then use this information to obtain the book from your local library or your favorite corner book shop.
  • At the Table in Colonial America 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Civil War Recipes : Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book 
    A book by Lily May Spaulding.
  • Confederate Camp Cooking 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Cookbook for Germans from Russia 
    A book by Nelly Daes.
  • Cooking for the Cause: Confederate Recipes, Documented Quotations, Commemorative Recipes 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Cooking in the Young Republic: 1780-1850 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Dining by Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine 
    A book by James D. Porterfield.
  • Early American Cookery: "The Good Housekeeper," 1841 
    A book by Sarah Josepha Hale.
  • The First American Cookbook: A Facsimile of "American Cookery," 1796 
    A book by Amelia Simmons.
  • German Food & Folkways: Heirloom Memories from Europe, South Russia, & the Great Plains 
    A book by R. M. H. Gueldner.
  • Germany's Regional Recipes 
    A book by Helga Hughes.
  • The Harvey House Cookbook: Memories of Dining Along the Santa Fe Railroad 
    A book by George H. Foster.
  • Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration 
    A book by Hasia R. Diner.
  • Lincoln's Table: Victorian Recipes from Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois to the White House 
    A book by Donna D. McCreary.
  • Log Cabin Cooking: Pioneer Recipes & Food Lore 
    A book by Barbara Swell.
  • Meals and Memories: How to Create Keepsake Cookbooks 
    A book by Kathy Steligo.
  • Mrs. Billy Yank's Receipt Book: Cooking on the Home Front 1861-1865 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Refreshments Now and Then: Colonial, Victorian, & Contemporary Sweets 
    A book by Patricia B. Mitchell.
  • Scrapbooking with Recipes: Ideas for Preserving Kitchen Memories 
    A book by Carol Dahlstrom.
  • A Taste For War: The Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray 
    A book by William C. Davis.
  • A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told through Food, Recipes, and Remembrances 
    A book by Laura Schenone.
  • The Virginia Housewife: Or Methodical Cook: A Facsimile of an Authentic Early American Cookbook 
    A book by Mary Randolph.
• HeritageCookbook 
  Make a very special family cookbook with your own photos and stories as well as your own recipes. Minimum order - 5. Printed in 5-10 business days.
• Patricia B. Mitchell's Inkling Series 
  Books on American food history.
• Secret Ingredients - Heirloom Cookbooks 
• Skaldaspillar Publications 
  Books on the culture, history, landscape, and crafts of Norway. Premiere book is "Norwegian National Recipes. An inspiring journey in the culinary history of Norway" by Arne Brimi and Ardis Kaspersen 2000. A cookbook, history book, and travel book all rolled into one -- 1100 recipes from each of the 19 "fylke" in Norway. Explore the culinary traditions of your ancestors.
• Schmeckfest: Food Traditions of Germans From Russia 
  A video from Prairie Public Television.
• Vintage Cookbooks 
  Rare, out-of-print, used, antique, vintage, and collectible cookbooks, as well as regional and specialty cookbooks.

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