1850-1869

This collection includes works related to vegetarianism and meatless cooking published in the United States between 1850 and 1869.

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Mrs. Putnam's Receipt Book

Elizabeth H. Putnam

A Young Housekeeper's assistant. From the Library of Congress. Digitized and available at Internet Archive.
The Kitchen Companion

Richard, Warren, and Flint

Contains valuable recipes for ice creams, puddings, pies, cakes, blanc mange, and custards. An excellent guide to the housewife by brothers. Digitized by the Sloan Foundation from the Library of Congress. Full text available at the Internet Archive.
Crumbs From The Round Table

Joseph Barber

A Feast for Epicures. A compilation of different articles discussing different foods and in different seasons. Book Digitized from the McKee Library Collection.
The Household Treasure

Andrew F. Smith

Containing several hundred valuable receipts for cooking well at a moderate expense, making dyes, coloring, cleaning and cementin. To which is added a description of medicinal roots and herbs, and how they are to be used in the cure of diseases. Excerpts from photographs from NYU Bobst Special Collections SpecCol.
Dr. Chase's Recipes

Alvin Wood Chase

Information for everybody: an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes for, merchants grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians and others. With a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases. Digitized by Google and full text available at Google Books.
Valuable Recipes

A W. Chase

For saloons, inn-keepers, grocers, druggists, merchants, and for families generally. A guide to wealth. Full text digitized and available from the McKee Library collection.
The new hydropathic cook-book : with recipes for cooking on hygienic principles

R T. Trall

Contains also a philosophical exposition of the relations of food to health; the chemical elements and proximate constitution of alimentary principles; the nutritive properties of all kinds of aliments; the relative value of vegetable and animal substances; the selection and preservation of dietetic materials. Digitized by Google from the University of California. Full text available at Hathitrust.
The New Household Receipt Book

Sarah Josepha Hale

Contains maxims, directions, and specifics for promoting health, comfort, and improvement in the homes of the people: compiled from the best authorities, with many receipts never before collected. Digitized by Google from Harvard Library and available at Hathitrust.
American Vegetarian and Health Journal

American Vegetarian Journal

Multiple journal publishing beginning from November 1850 covering all kinds of topics regarding vegetarian diet. Digitized by the University of Michigan from their archives. Full text available at Hathitrust.
Water and vegetable diet in consumption, scrofula, cancer, asthma, and other chronic diseases

William Lambe

The advantage of pure soft water over that which is hard are particularly considered; together with a great variety of facts and arguments showing the superiority of the farinacea and fruits to animal good in the preservation of health. Digitized and available at Hathitrust.