Henry Notaker's

Old Cookbooks and Food History

Old cookbooks online

Online texts at notaker.com

• Late medieval manuscript (c. 1300)
• First printed Nordic Cookbook (1616)
• Manuscript cookbook at Riksarkivet/National Archives (1785)
• The Royal Dinner (1846), by a cook from the palace of King Carl XIV Johan (Maréchal Bernadotte)
• Josephine Thrane's manuscript cookbook, at Riksarkivet/National Archives (c. 1850).
• Norway's first military cookbook (1852)  
• A Cookbook for Poor Housewives (1857), by Hanna Winsnes

External links

University of Pennsylvania Library:

• .Ed. Kidder: Receipts of Pastry and Cookery for the Use of his Scholars. 17--

Humanities Text Initiative, University of Michigan:

• Two fifteenth-century cookery-books.

Dokumentasjonsprosjektet, The University of Oslo:

• Hanna Winsnes’s classic Norwegian cookbook (1845).

Thomas Gloning's electronic texts in German, inter alia:

• Magninus Mediolanensis, Opusculum de saporibus
• Buch von guter Spise (ed. Hajek)
• Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard von Landshut
• Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin
• Marx Rumpolt: Ein new Kochbuch (partial)
• Mittelniederdeutsches Kochbuch (ed. Wiswe)
• Austria's first printed cookbook (1686)

 Medieval/Renaissance Food Homepage, texts in original and translation:

• Ein Buch von Guter Spise, English translation
• The Closet of the Eminently Learned Sir Digbie (partial)
• Le Ménagier de Paris (partial, with English translation)
• Forme of Cury (scanned pages)
• Du fait de Cuisine (partial, English translation) 
• Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin (English translation)

Last update 15 MAR 2001.