Interested in book recommendations

by StarGoober

Can anyone recommend me some good historical recipe books? I'm really interested in some recipes from ancient times well up to about 200 years ago.

sunagainstgold

The Medieval Cookery website hosts or links to a large number of medieval and medieval-adjacent cookbooks transcribed online--some in the original language, some in English translation, some in other modern language translations.

Because medieval recipes can be...funky...it also wonderfully hosts a list of reconstructed recipes that adapt the medieval text (typically included at the bottom) into a modern-style recipe with amounts, exact ingredients, and so forth.

Happy cooking and happier eating!

poorly-knit

Certainly on the more modern end, but these are recipes from American history.