any advice for locating old timey

[mizzdee]

Recipes?
I dont know if its against chowhound rules to ask for reccs to other sites..so if itw is..anything will help
Tv shows...books etc...blogs..other sites if thats allowed
Ive googled and didnt have much luck in finding a lot
Just anything old fashioned/ but not so it could nit be adapted for today
country food
..farm stuff..things of bygone years
Even maybe fond nemories of foods at chr..uch dinners, bake sales

[MsMaryMc]

Try...

OldCookbooks.com
http://www.oldcookbooks.com/

Church and community cookbooks can be a treasure trove of classic old family recipes (in between the Bisquick Impossible Pies and the Campbell's Cream of Crap casseroles, at least). eBay is one place to look for them, but some of the companies that assemble and publish them also sell the extras:

Morris Press Cookbooks
http://www.cookbooksforsale.com/

Fundcraft Publishing
https://www.fundcraft.com/store/Cookbooks-Details.aspx?idProduct=2

Cookbooks.com
http://www.cookbooks.com/cookbooks_re...

[meatn3]

This link is for a site I always find interesting - she also has a great many excellent links to peruse:

http://gherkinstomatoes.com/

This site has amazing information on Victorian cooking. I would love to take a workshop there!

http://www.historicfood.com/portal.htm

I really enjoy the articles by Alice Ross about antique cooking implements/techniques, often with recipes!

http://www.journalofantiques.com/cont...

[mizzdee]

Ooohh..thanks meatn3

[mizzdee]

Thank you to all that had a recc or suggestion.
i am loving them all!!
And to clarify ...when i ask for old timey, i do mean anything

From the oldest recipe ever found up until any date.i fear if i yry to limit a time period.i may miss out on something fun

[escondido123]

I Googled the two words "old recipes" and got pages and pages of results. Might want to try it.

[Harters]

You'll find that ancient Rome will offer up the best documented old food. Google on "ancient Rome recipes" for about 3 million hits.

Google will also turn you up a number of very old recipe books - ranging from Apicius in 4th century CE, to Hannah Glasse in 1747

[Quine]

You ( and many others) may enjoy this site:
http://hungrybrowser.com/

Uncle Phaedrus, Finder of Lost recipes, i just such a wonderful read. He takes in requests from readers to find, lost, old or long gone business (like Horn and Hardart) recipes. You can just curl up and read the request and the answers. I've used it several times myself to local a recipe and he came through!

[mizzdee]

One of my faves so far...thanks Quine!

[Midlife]

Find this guy on your local PBS station or buy one of his books:

http://atasteofhistory.org/

[mizzdee]

I love this show
Food& facts? Its like peanut butter and chocolate"! Lol

[cowboyardee]

How old timey are you looking for?
http://recipes.medievalcookery.com/

Assuming that's too far back, here's some Depression era recipes:
http://countrytimerecipes.alphamaids....

[mizzdee]

Loved em both...thanks!

[meatn3]

This site has many old cookbooks available to read online:

http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/index.html

This radio series explores the WPA documentation of food conducted during the depression:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/st...

[shallots]

Meatn3's digital cookbook site has so much, you can't being to appreciate the quantity without spending several hours on the site.

[meatn3]

I've lost many hours there!.It's the sort of site that makes me so thankful for having access to the resources of the web! I love reading old cookbooks - such an interesting snapshot of a specific moment in time.

[cowboyardee]

Nice resource. Reading through an old creole cookbook now. Thanks for posting.

[escondido123]

Fanny Farmer cookbooks.

[Karl S]

Well, here's a largely forgotten American classic from the middle of the 20th century: Aunt Chick, famed for pies (baked in a special mesh-bottomed pan, btw; there is a modern version of this available online somewhere, because I got one a few years ago, as my mother's original pan from Aunt Chick went missing...) and cookies.

http://www.grammascutters.com/chick_pies.asp

http://www.grammascutters.com/chick_winning.asp (her pie crust method is very interesting: it's kinda laminated, and yields excellent results

)

http://www.grammascutters.com/cookie_nofail.asp

http://www.grammascutters.com/cookie_...

[mizzdee]

Thanks karl!

[escondido123]

Library and second hand book stores would be a good place to look. What you are looking for is so vague to me I can't be more specific.

[mizzdee]

Thanks! Not looking for anything in particular...so thats just fine

[escondido123]

So would 12th century recipes be good? How far back is "old timey" to you? Is it any time before you were born, and if so could you give us a clue? Thanks!

[calliope_nh]

Not sure of how old you are looking for, but I have seen war time cooking with rations allotments pamphlets. You could check eBay and estate sales.

There is also a website www.foodtimeline.org which lists popular menu items by decade. It is mostly geared to the US but they have a UK section as well. I don't think there are recipes per se.

[mizzdee]

Thanks!

[Harters]

I think you may need to further define what time period you mean by "old fashioned" or "bygone".

[mizzdee]

Im trying to keep it open and loose just in case someone has ideas i didnt think about

[gaffk]

I commend the fact that you could interpret this as English.

[dmjordan]

+1