Historical American Cookbook: American Cookery From The Early 1800's

Not what I expected from title and description. I was looking for truly historical recipes from the 1800s with hopefully a bit of background. This is a compilation of recipes with no context other than the title of the book. No other pages in the book but recipes. No title page, intro, printing info, no list of chapters, no pages numbers, no bibliography, no copyright info. Just recipes. There is nothing describing where the recipes came from, who wrote them. More unusual (and confusing) than all of that is how many ingredients called for weren't even available in the early 1800's. In the first third or so of recipes, I counted 15 ingredients not available in the early 1800's. Not reliable as an historical resource, if that is what you are looking for.

Love the recipes

I think the first section had a few historic recipes, but the rest of the book is just random recipes. One used packaged Italian seasoning. Much use of canned vegetables, including canned soup: not available in the 1800's. At least getting a refund was easy.

The cover of this book claims that it contains recipes from the early 1800s and that it's "historical". The recipes include ingredients such as lemon jello ( for Texas Beet Salad), lime jello ( see The Tuna Salad recipe in the photo attached) and MSG (in the "Hawaiian Chicken " recipe.) Save your money. These appear to mostly be the recipes of a part time culinary dilettante who has little regard for health or history. If I could give it a half star rating, I would.

Was looking for 1800's era recipies , some recipies included in the book call for frozen vegetables or Bisquick. Not helpful for re-inactment purposes, which was why I bought it.

Definitely NOT recipes from early 1800s, wish I had read the reviews before trusting the near 5 star review it showed with the product. Not that expensive of an item but not worth it at all.

These recipes have nothing to do with the early 1800s. I'm pretty sure they didn't have lime jello or canned cream of mushroom soup 200 years ago. Most of these recipes are less than 50 years old. Don't waste your money.

I'm so thankful for Amazon's return policy because as soon as this book arrived I was unhappy. Large pages with a couple of typewritten recipes on each. Certainly not from the 1800's! Not unless you could find a package of dry Italian Dressing Mix a couple centuries ago. Not worth the paper it's printed on.