Hot take: That "rare" 1890s cookbook I found at the flea market was a total dud

I paid $40 for a beat-up copy of the "Buckeye Cook Book" from 1895 at a flea market in Cincinnati last Saturday because the cover looked so neat. Got it home and every recipe calls for ingredients that don't exist anymore or measurements nobody uses like a "gill" of something. Spent two hours online just figuring out half the terms and still couldn't make a single dish. Has anyone else fallen for a vintage cookbook that was basically unusable?

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lee_ward546d ago

Did you ever try the vintage recipe for boiled calf's head? That one got me too.

thomas_scott6d ago

Wait, was that the one with the vinegar and caper sauce or the one with the brains and parsley? I keep seeing different versions from old cookbooks and I'm not sure which one's actually the real "vintage" one.