Historic Websites

History with recipes of hardtack, the most convenient food for soldiers, explorers, and pioneers.

Vegetarian recipes of Medieval Spain.

Twenty seven Medieval and Renaissance recipes with notes.

Real Roman recipes for a day at the baths.

Eleven recipes from the last half of the last century (in English and German); from Timewitnesses.org.

About twenty recipes at RecipeSource.com.

Favourite Medieval and Renaissance recipes adapted for the modern cook.

Original texts of the recipes along with a modern workout.

Cookbook presentation with six sample recipes.

Recipes from the 19th and early 20th century.

Seven reconstructed recipes served by the common people or middle classes.

An anonymous Andalusian cookbook of the 13th century translated by Charles Perry.

Illustrated recipe for an Anglo-Norman pie.

Cookbook compiled around 1390 by the master-cooks of King Richard II, viewable as page images.

Food culture and recipes from the times of the Tudors (1485-1603), when foods from the New World were introduced.

Online collection of the most important 19th and early 20th century American cookbooks, viewable as page images.

Weblog exploring the cuisine and culture of Nouvelle France at the time of the French and Indian wars. Includes recipes and other articles.

Eight recipes from "Around the Roman Table: Food and Feasting in Ancient Rome," by Patrick Faas.

Handful of recipes including Honey Omelette, Sweet Wine Cakes, and Hummus.

Eight recipes taken from "The British Museum Cookbook" by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

Six recipes taken from "The British Museum Cookbook" by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.

Sample recipes from the book Fashionable Food: Seven Decades of Food Fads by Sylvia Lovegren, with short introductory notes on the food fads involved.

Middle English texts of two manuscripts, edited by Thomas Austin.