Welcome to Olde Cookery!

On Olde Cookery you will find delicious, entertaining, curious and discussion-worthy recipes, cooking techniques, unusual utensils, handy tips and tricks,  and illustrations from more than 270 "cookery" books written between 1750 and 1920. Whether you are bored with modern cuisine, hosting a dinner party or other gathering and want to pleasantly surprise your guests, or simply looking for an interesting read, you are sure to find what you need here.

• Surprise and delight yourself and your guests with out-of-the ordinary food and drinks. 
• Go "back to the future" to discover dishes you never knew existed, old ways of cooking familiar foods, and the fascinating historical origins of dishes and techniques that many of us now take for granted.
• Entertain your guests with your new vocabulary of delightful olde cooking terms.
• Enjoy cookery graphics you won't find on most other food sites...like those in this post.
• Learn how to carve, serve, slice, garnish, baste and much more, "olde style."
• Easily prepare for a dinner party by clicking on the "Bills of Fare" tag for complete party menus.

OLDE COOKERY will publish daily. We are excited to have you join us as we begin by sharing our first set of recipes today, then building OUR (yours and OLDE COOKERY'S) inventory daily. 

Cooking should be fun, interesting, rewarding, entertaining, satisfying, medicinal and more. We invite you to pull up a chair to our table and share the good food of the olde times and the great fun of discovery with us.

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All original recipes and books on the Olde Cookery blog and associated pages and sites are in the public domain. The modern, edited versions of books and all blog posts derived therefrom are copyright 2019-2020 by Olde Cookery^TM and Larry W. Bradley and Emely G. Bradley.