Recipes

Recipes (Receipts)

Whether cooking over a camp fire or preparing treats for a banquet or ball, it can be handy to have authentic period recipes — or receipts, as they were called — that are presented in a more comprehensible modern format, with clearer instructions and measurements but without sacrificing authenticity.

Many period cookbooks can be found online, more and more as libraries and others digitize their collections. Here are a few useful links — and Google books has others.

 

The Mount Vernon website also has recipes, like Martha Washington’s great cake shown below.

Here are a few other useful receipts that have been tested by us or knowledgeable friends.