Sources

I get most of my recipes for cook books from the period that are located on Google Books or in the hard copies that I own. Many of the cook books are available for free download, and I save them on my desktop for easy reference. I could never list all of them, so here are the ones I use most. 

Here are some of my favorites:

• The Practical Cook Book, 1850
• The Virginia Housewife, 1838
• The American Home Cooke Book, 1864
• The Practical Housekeeper, 1855
• Housekeeping in Old Virginia, 1879
• The Confederate Receipt Book, 1863
• Mrs. Leslie's Complete Cookery, 1851
• Mrs. Beeton's Dictionary of Everyday Cookery, 1865
• The Book of Household Management, 1861
• The Carolina Housewife, 1847

Modern Books of period recipes:

• The Confederate Housewife
• The Civil War Cookbook
• Rebel Cornbread & Yankee Coffee
• Hearthside Cooking

Websites full of resources:

• Feeding America
• Historic Cookbooks 1800-Civil War
• History is Served: Colonial Williamsburg Foodways
• Savoring the Past

Place to get things:

• Jas Townsend & Son- Cooking equipment, accessories, some spices, etc (mostly 18th C but some carry over to the 19th C)
• Dobyns & Martin, Grocers- Hard to find spices, teas, etc. Again, lots of 18th C stuff here
• Village Tinsmith- Tin goods- Cups, basins, bowls, etc.
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