This recipe is from a class of cookbooks / cooking pamphlets put out by the Baking Powder companies in the later part of the ...

"Velvet cakes" date back to the Victorian era. Unlike the heavier and more dense cakes that early settlers were used to, this ...

This basic recipe for Italian Macaroni appears in dozens of community cookbooks in our collection from Rural America (Canada too) - throughout the 1800s. Over about a 100 year period of culinary ...

Everyone's got a favorite root beer, but which one is truly the best of the best? We tasted a bunch of popular root beer ...

They were introduced to America in the late 1800s by German immigrants ... this is your time to shine and create your own hot ...

Just in time for the holidays, the much-anticipated "When Southern Women Cook" debuts this week, a gorgeously photographed book packed with must-try recipes.

However, potatoes didn’t become a feature of the Thanksgiving menu until some sixty years later. Serving them on Turkey Day became popular after novelist Sarah Josepha Hale, who some call the Mother ...

Gumbo, a hearty and flavorful stew, is a quintessential New Orleans dish frequently appearing on Thanksgiving tables. It is ...