/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15616603
Where's the orange fool?

But the recipes in it seem pretty cool. Looks like it was originally published in 1939.

>>15616609
what?

>>15616614
trump. he's still living in their heads rent free.
>still bumping this rare and interesting thread

>>15616604
>when we say "faggot" no bundle of inflammable dry twigs is indicated but a clutch of sweet herbs
I weep for things which were written in much simpler times

>>15616612
The roman numerals say 1946

>>15616612
>>15616860
>1946

>>15616629
>"vast and gay nineties"

what did he mean by this?
how did he know the 90's were gonna be so gay?

>>15616604
This seems like a book for me. Thanks for sharing, anon.

>>15616709

https://www.mountvernon.org/inn/recipes/article/orange-fool/

>>15616955
>the only 90’s are the 1990’s
21st century kid detected

>>15616978
how gay were the 1890s? so gay they were still joking about them in the 1940s?

>>15616709
Ignoramus

>>15616965
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_fool
>Foole is first mentioned as a dessert in 1598
historic

>>15616987
Well there wasn’t a civil war, a world war, or a revolution: so yeah

>>15616989

These are pretty damn good too.

>>15616987
gay enough to get their own wikipedia page, so, pretty gay
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Nineties

As is this one from 1960...

>>15617026
i never liked those recipe sites that start with a story but now i'm realizing that's just because the stories aren't very well written

>>15617035
Yeah. Some of the old cookbooks are pretty good... This is from "George the Housewife". a cookbook with bear advice.

>>15617021
politically corrected!

>>15617106
Ok anon... This made me laugh out loud! Great job!

>>15616860
I think that's this edition.

Bumping because this is a decent thread.

>>15617784
Looks like you can still get "The Gentleman's Companion" and "Southern Cooking: 322 Old Dixie Recipes" from bezos or wherever. Can't find the Herter ones execpt used/auction tho.

these links have a bunch of old cookbooks:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1wG7TgCwoAAucqbdDqrY7qmrPr1NE0R8U
https://mega.nz/folder/8JtzDQQK#eOzG3Z-cxAUlilmIwns2Hg
https://d.lib.msu.edu/fa

>>15618015
>gigabytes and gigabytes of stuff like OPs books
thank you anon we are living in the future

>>15618015
lol that pic

>>15617820
The hereter ones are quite rare... But worth seeking out. He also has one thin book all about distilling alcohol, complete with advice on sock darning and how to mix drinks.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/595605.George_Leonard_Herter

https://www.amazon.com/george-herter-Books/s?k=george+herter&rh=n%3A283155

>>15616603
Found like a cookbook from between the wars, no recipe is longer tan longer than 5-6 lines.

Making the barons deenz sandwishes tomorrow :D

>>15616609
He was voted out a few months back, don't you keep up with the news?

>>15616987
Stop faggin up the thread

>>15616987
I remember a song referring to them as 'The Naughty Nineties'. I think the song in question was from the inter-war period.

"In the naughty nineties, when [something something] was so gay...."

>>15618227
are the 2090's gonna be like that too?

>>15617534
Decorative women who what, anon? What did the decorative women do (or fail to do) with the game and/or curry?! Don't blue-ball us like that!!!

>>15618219
stfu homo

>>15616987
no gayer times are known, faggot

>>15618015
Thanks anon, whoever you are, for posting the single most interesting and valuable post I've ever seen on /ck. I love old books, and the next best thing to actually owning them, is having a digital copy. I have added these to my archive. The second link wanted a password, but the 1st link was more than enough to make me very happy today.

Thank you.

>>15618015
>>15618437
i found it, jewish fish preservation secrets from before the war

>>15618015
>>15618741
these old books are amazing, it's hard to put into words how much there is in those links

some of them are hundreds of pages long of old timey cooking wisdom that you can tell is written by someone who's been a homemaker their whole life

i made that home pickling thread a few days ago and these books have PAGES full of pickles

>>15619209
Yeah I'm going through a few of them myself now, I downloaded and organized them on my tablet... I'm very thankful for the links.

>>15618253
I will never know.

Apparently it's still in print. Which speaks well for the recipes.

https://www.amazon.com/Gentlemans-Companion-Charles-Henry-Baker/dp/1626541256/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=The+Gentleman%27s+Companion&qid=1613788063&sr=8-1

Dwight Schrute Tier cooking instructions

>>15618257
>What did the decorative women do (or fail to do)
these old books don't hold back

>>15616987
The world was relatively at peace from 1890-1914. And then everybody entered a complete slaughterhouse of a war that changed everything and caused depressions throughout the world. So from the perspective of the people in the interwar period, things were very gay before the war.

>>15619451
thanks, these books are dropping based knowledge and teaching me to make sloppa at the same time

>>15619509
those venetians and their coin counting, I tells ya!

>>15619531
ok i'm pretty sure this one is freemason symbolism, right?

>>15619451
TBF the US was entering an economic slump before WWI (similar to WWII, actually) and the beginning few years of the war, before the US got officially involved (again, similar to WWII), we were making beaucoup bucks off both sides of the fucking war that pulled us right out of that slump.
Also, during the Great Depression, war had nothing to do with it. The “roarin 20’s” sufficiently suppressed any ideas that WWI was responsible for the Great Depression, it was mostly caused by market problems (which could easily have been for corrupt reasons, someone made money out of this). WWII was basically responsible for pulling us out of the Great Depression, and thus was borne the idea that the great American country was profiteering from wars in foreign lands. Seems adequately so.

>>15619550
“Symbols” are a form of propaganda :^)

>>15619562
whole sections of the book are spattered in blood

>>15616609
>still seething about Townsend to this day

>>15617534
truly a based time to have existed in

>>15619597

>>15619581
I still can't get over the fact that some government department wasted tax-payers' money cataloguing memes off 4chan.

>>15619575
No anon. As the owner of a half wall of old books, I can tell you that those stains are caused by mold.

>>15616603
don't know why but this thread triggered a crushing existential crisis. we're all going to die bros.

>>15619556
I mostly mean Europe when talking about depression though, especially Germany. I'm not an expert but Weimar seemed worse than Great Depression USA.

>>15619684
these books are really heavy anon i can't stop reading them
look at this one, they debooked the low fat diet craze in 1905! and we didn't listen!

>>15619575
It's a cookbook dude. Probably old grease or sauce, or mold like other anon said.

>>15619684
It's not so bad. I bet the guys who wrote these books would be thrilled that we're reading them. You have to leave a legacy.

>>15619695
have you read the "what was your worst accident" thread that's been going?
stories of finishing shifts of work with cuts to the face and hands, many such cases

choose your destiny anons

>>15619684
All these people, the ones who shared their experience with you through these books, are all long dead and gone. Their world is also completely gone, although some physical landmarks exist. We today have a bit more in common with them than we do the ancient Greeks or Romans, but in the grand scheme of things, not as much as you might think.
1884? The date of the Boston School of Cooking book. No electricity for most people. Whale oil was running out, kerosene was being invented to replace it and the Great Horse Shit Crisis was enveloping New York City.Coal gas used for lighting in the cities, candles elsewhere. Horses on the farm. cars are a few years off yet. Mrs. Lincoln, the author of the book, dies 100 years ago. In December of 1921. Yet she can still teach you a thing or two, if you let her, through her book. 600 pages, written and typset by hand. Imagine.

Maybe this is where your thoughts come from?

Maybe google a few of the author names, quite a few have wikipedia entries. Make the connection.

I use this to break-my-fast.

>>15619695
Yes, mold... And it doesn't have to be a cookbook to get it either. Most of the paper back in the 1800s was inexpensive, largely unbleached and of lesser quality. Same stuff they used to print telephone books on, a bit thicker than and a grade up from newspaper stock. If you store a book in a damp room... say a kitchen or a library that's older than central heating, or before A/C was invented, you will have some mold staining on the paper. It's inevitable. Part of the job of a book conservator, is to remove this staining, and let me tell you it's not cheap to have it done.

Also intersting, is the fact that most of these book, were they in regular use would completely fall apart in a short while, which is why it's so great to have them in PDF format now.

>>15619730
these books are also an incredible window into the lifestyles of the extremely wealthy by modern standards, pic related
i can't imagine living in a house where these rules apply

>>15619766
Gives you a new perspective on the "Downton Abbey" series doesn't it? Things were very, terribly formal back then. You stayed in your place. For life. Only in the 20th century were people able to break that barrier in large numbers.

>>15619755
ya they are moldy and worn out for sure but some of them still have trippy cover art

>>15619766
Doesn't seem like a big deal when you consider that there were few distractions and nothing really better to do. If the man is out all day working, then it makes sense that the woman should put a similar level of work into the home. Imagine if maintaining the home and keeping your spouse happy was your full time job that you got paid for, you'd probably be doing a lot of these things.

>>15619785
Those are called Marbled Boards, and the ones inside the book, Marbled Flyleaves or Marbled End sheets.

Books were a big deal 100+ years ago. They weren't cheap. So a lot of cre went into their decoration. You can find a ton of these marbled sheets, or boards scanned online, some as wallpaper.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=book+end+sheets+marble+wallpapers&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwj9q_vtzPfuAhVChJ4KHaYWD_oQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=book+end+sheets+marble+wallpapers&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQA1CdIViuLmDyLmgAcAB4AIABaYgB5AWSAQM5LjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=n4wwYL3gJsKI-gSmrbzQDw&bih=644&biw=1022

>>15619815
these books are so based, i had no idea the rabbit hole i was going down when i started reading these i thought they were just cookbooks bros

>>15619815
Often, books like these were used as a manual for the Lady of the house to direct her servants. Those who could read, (the servants) were often given a separately bound booklet, that part of the main book which outlined his or her duties. These booklets were sold with the main book, as sets.

>>15619835
I have the feeling that you, anon, will soon begin collecting pdf files.... Archive.org has a lot of material, on many different subjects.

Go here: https://archive.org/details/books?and[]=lending___status%3A%22is_readable%22

Then filter by subject using the sidebar.

>>15619835
Here's a good example: https://archive.org/details/modpowerengin1911toro/mode/2up

>>15619684
>existential crisis
because you will never have a 400-page-professional-cook-with-servant-girls waifu

But HEY! We want cooking books.... So here:

https://archive.org/search.php?query=cook%20book&and[]=mediatype%3A%22texts%22

The entire list over 6000 cookbooks from the ancient to the not so ancient.

>>15618209
>voted out

>>15619955

>>15618015
you are the fucking man, thanks

>>15620159

>>15618015
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>>15618437
>>15619209
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>>15619867
here is more vintage cook books frens
https://mega.nz/folder/ogcwQb4b#6bflJ5dmRUICYnT3Yo8ILQ

>>15620874
extremely rare thread

>>15620874
Again, thank you very much. Very much indeed.

>>15619648
Inbetween not giving us healthcare or improving public transit and the education system, feds have plenty of money to blow on nothing

>>15619723
Post hungarian and near east pls

>>15621026
They always protect two key things. The first is money. You commit a crime with a money angke, they go all out. The second is societal control. You agitate, they are going to come for you.

Has always been so.

>>15619955
Well alright then; "voted" out, same difference.

>>15616604
>latter day Columbus sailing
Colonizer! REEEEEE!

>>15621037
hungarians can have liquor with every meal and should take whiskey with breakfast, just don't give any kill pickles to starving hungarian children, you have to give them cereal.

>>15621037
>"evenings are spent under the great canopy of blue and gold, with all the family"
>olives, figs, wine, and kebabs
comfy

Bump to keep this alive a while longer.

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>>15623692
forgot the pic

>>15623700
I like the lack of pretense, solid instructions, simple explanations.

This advice generally causes huge fights when suggested here on /ck.

>>15623714
yes, it's so straightforward, it doesn't have that grasping anxiety of the youtuber trying add something extra to make themselves relevant

neat

>>15624042
>young and tender leaves of the sassafrass
they were making MDMA, weren't they?