[octex]

I ended up with a cookbook that belonged to my grandmother.

“The White House Cook Book”, 1903, Edith Carew Roosevelt.

Not counting the index, it’s 594 pages. Pages are fragile.

Contains: Cooking, Toilet (what we call hygiene), household recipes, menus, dinner-giving, table etiquette, care of the sick, health suggestions, facts worth knowing, etc.

[Jamestown1630]

Thinking of old cookbooks reminded me of one I’d found before: the Lookout Cookbook, from the U. S. Forestry Service; here’s a link to several editions:

http://www.foresthistory.org/ASPNET/Publications/Cookbook/Lookout_Cookbook.aspx

You can also buy collections of recipes from fire tower lookouts:

http://www.amazon.com/Lookout-Cookbook-Collection-Lookouts-Throughout/dp/097233565X

-JT

[kalee]

I recently saw a facsimile of that book. It’s which has been republished.