I've enjoyed digging out older recipes from the 1700's and 1800's from "The Whole Duty of a Woman": https://archive.org/details/wholedutyawoman00unkngoog https:

I've enjoyed digging out older recipes from the 1700's and 1800's from "The Whole Duty of a Woman": https://archive.org/details/wholedutyawoman00unkngoog https://archive.org/details/wholedutyawoman00unkngoog Everything from main courses, soups, side dishes, pies, desserts is in it. I might add that since there are no ovens back then, you have to improvise to the instructions of "hold over fire", and "bake 'till brown", ect.