Old Knowledge Database Links Corrected!

[MidWestHerbalist]

New Books Added Today...
You can view them on the front page of this thread....

I linked them below...

Cooking & Recipes
Warnes every-day cookery : containing one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight distinct receipts (1872)
300 culinary receipts (1892) 100 ways of cooking eggs, 100 ways of cooking fish, 100 desserts
One hundred mushroom receipts (1899)
New receipts for cooking ([c1854])

The Muskegon cook book of tested receipts, (total abstinence) (1890)
"Aunt Babette's" cook book: foreign and domestic receipts for the household (1889)
The National Cookbook(1866)
Colonial receipt book: celebrated old receipts used a century ago by Mrs. Goodfellow's cooking school (1907)
The universal cook book; a collection of tried and tested home receipts (1909)



Eclectic
A Cyclopaedia of six thousand pratical receipts (1851)

Mrs. Hale's Receipts For The Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred And Forty-Five Receipts, Facts, Directions Etc. In The Useful, Ornamental, And Domestic Arts, And In The Conduct Of Life. Being A Complete Family Directory. Relative To Accomplishments, Economy, Ladies' Work, Phrenology, Amusements, Etching, Feather Work, Potichomanie, Beauty, Etiquette, Manners, Poultry, Birds, Flowers, Marriage, Riding, Building, Gardening, Medicines, Swimming, Children, Grecian Painting, Needlework, Surgery, Domestic Cookery, Health, Nursing, Temperance, Courtship, Home, Gut-Door Work, Trees, Etc. Dress, Etc. Housekeeping, Painting, Women's Duties, Words Of Washington, Etc. By Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale.

Encyclopedia of practical receipts and processes. Containing over 6400 receipts; embracing thorough information, in plain language, applicable to almost every possible industrial and domestic requirement ([1872])

Hand Book of Practical Receipts, Or Useful Hints in Every Day Life By American Gentleman(1860)

Dr Chase's Recipes, or Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection of About 600 Practical Recipes for Business and Professional Men, Mechanics, Artists, Farmers and for Families Generally 8th Ed. (1860)

The Southern Gardener and Receipt-Book, Containing Valuable Information, Original and Otherwise, On all subjects Connected with, Domestic and Rual Affairs, Gardening Cookery, Beverages, Dairy, Medical, Veterinary and Miscellaneous 3rd ed. (1860)

Mackenzie's Five Thousand Receipts In All The Useful & Domestic Arts: Constituting A Complete Practical Library Relative To Agriculture, Beer, Bleaching, Brewing, Calico Printing, Carving At Table, Cements, Confectionary, Cookery, Crayons, Dairy, Diseases, Distillation, Dying, Enamelling, Engraving, Farriery, Food, Gardening, Gilding, Glare, Health, Inks, &c. Jewellers' Pastes, Lithography, Medicines, Metallurgy, Oil Colours, Oils, Painting, Pastry, Perfumery, Pickling, Pottery, Preserving, Scouring, Silk, Silk Worms, Silvering, Tanning, Trees Of All Kinds, Varnishing, Water Colours, Wines, &c. &c. &c. (1853)

A dictionary of every-day wants : containing twenty thousand receipts in nearly every department of human effort including Accidents and Emergencies, Apiary, Carpenter and Builder, Cements, Glues and Pastes, Cooking and Baking, Druggist and Chemist, Domestic Animals, Farm, Orchard, Garden and Dairy, House/told Miscellany, Household Pets, Household Pests, Hunting, Trapping and Tanning. Inks and Blacking, Medical and Surgical, Ornamental Work, Painting and Papering (Including Varnishing, Polishing, Staining, and Gilding,) Photography and the Fine Arts, Preserving and Storing, Soap and Candles, Toilet, Wardrobe, Washing, Bleaching and Dyeing, Wines, Liquors and Vinegar, Workers in Glass, Workers in Metals, & Miscellaneous (1872)[/color]

The Cabinet-Maker And Upholsterer's Companion: Comprising The Rudiments And Principles Of Cabinet-Making And Upholstery, With Familiar Instructions, Illustrated By Examples, For Attaining A Proficiency In The Art Of Drawing, As Applicable To Cabinet-Work : The Processes Of Veneering, Inlaying, And Buhl-Work ; The Art Of Dyeing And Staining Wood, Ivory, Bone, Tortoise-Shell, Etc. Directio.Vs For Lackering, Japanning, And Varnishing; To Make French Polish ; To Prepare The Best Glues, Cements, And Compositions ; And A Number Of Receipts, Particularly Useful To Workmen Generally. With Explanatory And Illustrative Engravings, By J. Stokes. (1850)

Workshop Receipts
Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 1
Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 3
Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 4
Workshop receipts (1883) Vol 5

Famous old receipts used a hundred years and more in the kitchens of the North and the South (1908)

The Mendelssohn club cook book. This book contains 1394 valuable receipts with instructions for cooking and serving them, also menus for social functions (1909)

What to do with the cold mutton : a book of réchauffés. Together with many other approved receipts for the kitchen of a gentleman of moderate income (1865)


The hunter's handbook, containing a description of all articles required in camp, with hints on provisions and stores and receipts for camp cooking (1885)

A garden of herbs : being a practical handbook to the making of an old English herb garden ; together with numerous receipts from contemporary authorities (1922)

Molony's masterpiece on wool, silk and cotton dyeing : containing his best receipts, without the least reserve, according to his practice in Great Britain and America (1837)

What I know; or, Hints on the daily duties of a housekeeper. Comprising nearly five hundred receipts, for cooking, preserving, pickling, washing, ironing, gardening, plain and fancy needle-work, putting up of winter stores, and numerous other receipts useful and needful in every well-regulated household (1856)

The cook's own book : being a complete culinary encyclopedia comprehending all valuable receipts for cooking meat, fish, and fowl : and composing every kind of soup, gravy, pastry, preserves, essences, &c. that have been published or invented during the last twenty years : particularly the very best of those in the Cook's oracle, Cook's dicitionary, and other systems of domestic economy : with numerous original receipts and a complete system of confectionery (1832)

The family save-all. : Supplying excellent dishes for breakfast, dinner and tea, from cold fragments, as well as a large number of new receipts for cooking and preparing all kinds of soups, fish, oysters, terrapins, lobsters, meats, poultry, game, tea cakes, jellies, rolls, preserves, pies, puddings, dessert, cakes, pickles, sauces, etc. With miscellaneous receipts and invaluable hints for economy in every article of household use. (1867)

Apicius redivivus : or, The cook's oracle: wherein especially the art of composing soups, sauces, and flavouring essences is made so clear and easy ... being six hundred receipts, the result of actual experiments instituted in the kitchen of a physician, for the purpose of composing a culinary code for the rational epicure .. (1817)

The toilet of Flora; or, A collection of the most simple and approved methods of preparing baths, essences, pomatums, powders, perfumes, and sweet-scented waters. With receipts for cosmetics of every kind, that can smooth and brighten the skin, give force to beauty, and take off the appearance of old age and decay. For the use of the ladies (1779)

[graveday]

The toilet of Flora?   Wait till Lua sees that.

[pamela]

I hope that people can take advantage of all this information and maybe collect it onto cds or print out some of it.
What an amazing library worth of books here!
thanks Herbalist and all the contributors, this is amazing information.

[Air Colorado]

Bumping this simply because something tells me this information will be very valuable shortly but not available at that time. take advantage of it while you know it's here and available!

[emaho]

Started reading this thread last year, and I'm STILL reading.  What a treasure!!!  Thanks so much for posting this invaluable information. 

Bill in Tennessee (Roane County)

[MidWestHerbalist]

thanks emaho

[MidWestHerbalist]

WAY awesome plans in detail....
Poultry houses and fixtures (1910)

Louden barn plans (c1915)

The windmill: its efficiency and economic use (1901) color scan

The windmill: its efficiency and economic use (1901) Clean B&W Scan

Barn plans and outbuildings (1886, c1881)
The Book Above "Barn Plans & Outbuildings" Is rather sweet... It covers the following...

General Farm Barns
The Barn of Mr. David Lyman
Mr. Lawson Valentine's Bam
An Ohio Barn
A Missouri Barn
A Good Farm Barn
Another Barn for Mixed Farming
Mr. Charles S. Sargent’s Barn
A Plan for a Small Barn
Another Small Barn
The "Echo Farm" Barn

Cattle Barns and Stables
A Cattle Barn
A Western Cattle Barn
A Second Western Cattle Barn
Covered Stalls for Cattle
Cheap Cattle Sheds and Barns
Cheap Barn and Connecting Stables
A Temporary Cattle Shed
A Combined Cow Shed and Pigpen

Dairy Barns
A Westchester Co., N. Y., Dairy Barn
An Orange Co., N. Y., Dairy Barn
An Extension Dairy Barn

Cattle Shelters
An Archway Shelter
Cheap Temporary Shelters for Stock
Cattle Shelters on the Plains


Sheep Barns and Sheds
A Convenient Sheep Barn
Sheep Sheds and Racks
Sped for Soiling Sheep
Virginia Sheep Barn
A Kansas Sheep Shelter
Sheep Shelter on the Plains


Poultry Houses
A Cheap and Convenient Poultry House
An Ohio Poultry House
Another Cheap Hen House
Poultry Houses for Four Varieties
Poultry House for a Number of Breeds
Poultry Farming and Hillside Poultry Houses
Ducks and Duck Houses
Winter Care of Fowls
Stove for Poultry Houses

Piggeries
Plan of a Piggery
A Convenient Farm Piggery
Mr. Crozier's Pigpen
A Comfortable Pigpen
Pens and Yards for One Hundred and Fifty Hogs
A Portable Pigpen
Pigpen, Hen House, and Corn Crib Combined
A Pigpen and Tool House
A Cheap Pigpen
Self-Closing Door for Pigpen
A Swinging Door for Pigpen

Corn Houses and Cribs
The Connecticut Corn House
An Improved Corn House
Western Corn Houses
Another Western Corn House
A Self-Feeding Corn Crib
A Self-Discharging Corn Crib
A Cover for Corn Cribs

Ice Houses
Ice: Its Uses and Importance
Plan of an Ice House
A Cheap Ice House
A Small Ice House
Underground Ice Houses
An Ice House in the Barn
Ice without Houses
Ice Houses and Cool Chambers
Several Plans
A Chamber Refrigerator

Dairy Houses
Ice House and Summer Dairy Combined
A Butter Dairy
A Pennsylvania Dairy

Spring Houses
Interior of Spring House
A Dome-shaped, Concrete Spring House

Granaries, etc
A Granary with its Grain Bins
Another Granary with Plan of Grain Bins
Plan of Corn Crib and Granary
A Measuring Grain Bin
Sliding Spout for a Barn and Granary
Convenient Grain Bin

Smoke Houses
A Convenient Smoke House
Improved Smoke Houses
Cheap Smoke Houses
Smoking Meats in a Small Way
A Smoke House Convenience
An Oven and Smoke House Combined

Carriage Houses

Dog Kennels

Bird Houses and Pigeon Houses

The Preservation of Fodders

Root Cellars and Root Houses

[graveday]

I would love to have the whole set of houses;  ice house (even though no natural ice around here), spring house, smoke house, let alone barn.  With the right kind of barn you could do away with the various other animal housing ideas and even put your living quarters topside, like they do in some other areas of the world.  Let the animals heat help heat the house. 

[Taswegian]

A million thanks MWH, I am nibbling away at this amazing resource as fast as my download limit permits!!  Any chance of finding something on shoe/boot making ? I've tried on and off for months without success, but methinks you have skills far beyond mine!!

[MidWestHerbalist]

A million thanks MWH, I am nibbling away at this amazing resource as fast as my download limit permits!!  Any chance of finding something on shoe/boot making ? I've tried on and off for months without success, but methinks you have skills far beyond mine!!

Historically it is one of the protected guild trades and seems to be broken into three manufacturing sectors.
1 The manufacture of shoe leather or leather for "uppers"
2 The design, fitting, manufacture of soles and attaching uppers.
3 Shoe Repair

It does not seem to be the most common practice to manufacture the leather as well as the complete shoe itself although it could have been and texts are simply not available from periods where this was practiced. It does seem to be a common skill held by cobblers to manufacture "Lasts" or shoe forms made of hardwoods or iron. One who manufactured custom fitted "lasts" were known as Cordwainers. It seems that there was a dichotomy between the use of the terms Cordwainers and Cobblers, the former being of greater skill, and the latter which seemed to be maintainers or repairmen.

Home book to learn expert shoe repairing (1916)

How to bottom a welted shoe by hand (1912)

The manufacture of boots and shoes : being a modern treatise of all the processes of making and manufacturing footgear (1902)


Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody : an invaluable collection of about eight hundred practical recipes, for merchants, grocers, saloon-keepers, physicians, druggists, tanners, shoemakers, harness makers, painters, jewelers, blacksmiths, tinners, gunsmiths, farriers, barbers, bakers, dyers, renovators, farmers, and families generally : to which have been added a rational treatment of pleurisy, inflammation of the lungs, and other inflammatory diseases, and also for general female debility and irregularities : all arranged in their appropriate departments (1869)

Shoe and leather encyclopedia; (1911)

Shoe making, old and new (1911)

Designing, cutting and grading boot and shoe patterns, and complete manual for the stitching room, by an expert of thirty years (1899)

Leather manufacture : a treatise on the practical workings of the leather manufacture : including oil shoe grain, imitation goat and calf ..., together with numerous valuable recipes ... (1890)

The following text is mostly a history but has descriptions in the latter portion of the book in regards to shoe manufacture...
The boot and shoe-maker's assistant; (1853)

Shoes and shoemaking illustrated : a brief sketch of the history and manufacture of shoes from the earliest time (1897)

This information should suffice to get one started in the study. But as noted... there are many resources and skills needed, such as an available supply of leather which implies animal byproduct trade or manufacture, woodworking or smithing skills plus sources for hardwoods or metal to make "lasts," as well as all the tools and skill necessary to use them in order to realize the final product.

It seems a noble endeavour to me....

I will add these to the appropriate sections in the first page of this thread

[Stug]

OMG! Where to start! First I think i'm gonna need one of those Terrabyte Hard drives. Prices have been coming down in the past year or so. Then i'm gonna need a crap-load of ink to print this stuff.

My main interests are in the mechanical side but knowing that, I will be downloading medical and farming information as well as food preservation.

This is most definately the most useful collection of work I have ever seen. To all those who contributed most especially MWH my sincere thanks. To my mind you have aided in the survival of my family and I cannot thank you all enough.

Edit to add; I have gotten a book for a Xmas gift "Homemade Contrivances and How to Make Them" from Skyhorse Publishing which looks handy. Not sure if you can find a link for a digitised version but wanted to share.

[catanache]

Hello MidWestHerbalist!  Thank you for putting this list together for us.  I've browsed for things a few times but haven't had much luck.  I guess I don't use the right search words or something.  Which brings me to a request or two...

I was wondering if you could find something describing how to make wool working tools - wool combs, wool cards, diz, spindle wheel, spinning wheel, etc.  I looked through the American Woolen Manufacturer but it's more about how to profitably run a factory and set up looms for different patterns.  I'm trying to find something that will help me figure out how to repair an old wheel using my current limited selection of tools.  Thank you!

Oh, I also looked though The Seed Grower book.  It does not have detailed growing info but the descriptions of how to clean/dry the seeds with low tech is useful.  Also mentions some 'recent' machines run by steam or horses, is there something that would describe those in more depth?  I can go back and pull names if it would be useful. 

And one last thing.... At an antique bookstore I recent stumble across a set of books from 1901 or thereabouts.  The I.C.S. Reference Library 'A series of textbooks prepared for the students of the international correspondence schools...'   There are at least 53 volumes and the two volumes I saw covered all sorts of machine shop and woodworking subjects.  No idea what is in the other 51 volumes.  Thought they could be useful, especially since they're written to teach how to do these things - even include quizzes for each chapter!