Sources
Every recipe on this site comes from a cookbook published in 1930 or earlier. In the United States, works published in 1930 or earlier are in the public domain. Copyright rules differ in other countries.
We find books through the Internet Archive, which hosts scans and machine-read text of old books. We use only English-language books that the Internet Archive marks as not in copyright. A book that is missing a title, a publication year, or that mark is refused.
The books used so far are listed below, with the number of published recipes from each.
- Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South 1908 · 14 recipes View the scan at the Internet Archive
- Original recipes of good things to eat 1919 · 19 recipes View the scan at the Internet Archive
- A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes 1922 · 135 recipes View the scan at the Internet Archive