Cookbook
A cookbook, or cookery book, is kind of book that tells people how to prepare food for eating using specific instructions called a recipe. Most cookbooks also have tips on how to eat and present the food as well. They usually list the ingredients needed, time needed to cook, and the instructions. They may give other tips too.
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Eliza Smith's The Compleat Housewife, 1727
Apicius, De re coquinaria, an early collection of Roman recipes
18th Century Recipes for Biscuits from a private collection of recipes
from Modern Cookery for Private Families by Eliza Acton (London: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1871, p. 48)
Betty Crocker's Cook Book for Boys and Girls, 1957
Norwegian immigrant cookbook in Norwegian, published in the United States in 1899.
A page from the Forme of Cury (14th century) by the Master Cooks of King Richard II of England
