I might be running out of room in the modest space I have allotted myself for my vintage recipe pamphlets. I find it fascinating how the culmination of industrialization, new kitchen appliances, changing class structure, war, depression, and post war boom meant that EVERYONE – including electric companies, food suppliers, government agencies, and more – wanted to teach us how to cook at the end of the 19th century through and past the 1960s. Well, online collections of recipe pamphlets don’t take up space. Here are some:

• The Foods of England Project
• Michigan State University Libraries’ Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project
• Wellcome Collection includes a large selection of handwritten personal and family cookbooks
• Henry Ford museum Historic Recipe Bank
• Milwaukee Public Library Digital Collections Historic Recipe File
• Iowa University Libraries, Iowa Digital Library Szathmary Recipe Pamphlets collection
• Indiana University Library and Indianapolis Public Library Service through Sponge Cake collection
• Texas Tech University Libraries Historical Cookbooks
• Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives Online History of Food and Drink Collection
• Library of Congress Gastronomy Books