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Food Thrift: Scraps from the Past
Meet Constance Carter, Head, Science Reference Section, Science, Technology & Business Division, Library of Congress.	Constance Carter, Head of the Science Reference Section, Library of Congress, describes the resourceful ways American housewives found to feed their families during hard times of the past. View Webcast Read a transcript
Library of Congress Web Sites of Interest
American Women: A Gateway to the Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States //memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html In index, see housekeeping, cookery, and domestic life. Library of Congress Online Catalog http://catalog.loc.gov/ To search for materials on thrift, select Basic Search, then Expert Search. Helpful Search phrases are “thrift and cookery,” “canning and preserving,” wheatless, meatless, “food and thrift.” Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1923 //memory.loc.gov/ammem/coolhtml/coolhome.html
Other Web Sites of Interest
Feeding America: The Historic American Cookbook Project http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/ Hearth: A Core Electronic Collection of Books and Journals in Home Economics and Related Disciplines Published Between 1850 and 1950 http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/ From the Mann Library, Cornell University. North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/nwldlive/ Includes the immediate experiences of 1,325 women and 150 pages of diaries and letters. >> Back to top of page
Other Materials of Interest
Print Sources on Thrift in the Home: Primary Sources Alcott, William Andrus. The Young-Housekeeper, or Thoughts on Food and Cookery. 2nd stereotype ed. Boston: G. W. Light, 1838. LC call number: TX145.A35 http://lccn.loc.gov/07035679 Allen, Ida Cogswell Bailey. Solving the High Cost of Eating: A Cookbook to Live by. New York: Farrar, c1952. LC call number: TX715.A44246 http://lccn.loc.gov/52006979 Benson, Oscar Herman. Home Canning and Food Thrift. Albany: New York (State), Department of Farms and Markets, 1920. (Bulletin, no. 130) LC call number: S95.A18, no. 130. http://lccn.loc.gov/agr20001805 Bitting, A. W., and K. G. Bitting. Canning and How to use Canned Foods. Washington: National Canning Association, c1916. LC call number: TX603.B57 http://lccn.loc.gov/16011997 Child, Lydia Maria Francis. The American Frugal Housewife. 16th ed. Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1835. LC call number: TX147.C53 1835 http://lccn.loc.gov/07026052 -----. The Frugal Housewife. Boston: March & Capen, and Carter & Hendee, 1829. LC call number: TX147.C53 1829 RBK http://lccn.loc.gov/43019104 Clarke, Ida Clyde Gallagher. American Women and the World War. New York, London: D. Appleton and Company, 1918. LC call number: D639.W7C5 http://lccn.loc.gov/18004728 Available online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00008439515 Clay-Clopton, Virginia. A Belle of the Fifties: Memoirs of Mrs. Clay, of Alabama. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. LC call number: F213.C63 Ft. Meade http://lccn.loc.gov/13024517 Available online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00019715590 Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of Over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times. Richmond, Va.: West & Johnston, 1863. LC call number: TX153.C7 RBK http://lccn.loc.gov/04020450 Corson, Juliet. Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six. NewYork: The Author, 1877. LC call number: TX715.C835 http://lccn.loc.gov/08018950 Available online at //lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=gdc3&fileName=scd0001_20020806004fipage.db -----. Twenty-five Cent Dinners for Families of Six. 17th ed. New York: O. Judd Co., 1885. LC call number: TX715.C847 http://lccn.loc.gov/ca10002227 >> Back to top of page Creswell, Mary E., and Ola Powell. Home Canning of Fruits and Vegetables, As Taught to Canning Club Members in Southern States. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1917. (Farmers Bulletin, United States, Dept. of Agriculture, 853) LC call number: S21.A6, no. 853 http://lccn.loc.gov/agr17000704 Doddridge, Amelia. Liberty Recipes. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Company, 1918. LC call number: TX715.D64 SciRR Desk http://lccn.loc.gov/18018169 Dodge, David. “Domestic Economy in the Confederacy.” Atlantic Monthly 58, no. 346 (Aug. 1886): 229-43. LC call number: PN4900.A7A4 http://lccn.loc.gov/05022829 Available online in the volume at http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=atla;idno=atla0058-2 Drying Fruits and Vegetables in the Home—with Recipes for Cooking. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1917. (Farmers’ Bulletin, 841) LC call number: S21.A6, no. 841 http://lccn.loc.gov/agr16000325 Franks, Thetta Quay. Efficiency in the Household: A Book for Every Woman. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. LC call number: TX728.F8 http://lccn.loc.gov/15002276 -----. The Margin of Happiness, the Reward of Thrift. New York and London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1917. LC call number: TX145.F67 http://lccn.loc.gov/17018488 Food Thrift: Suggestions, Menus, Recipes with Substitutes. Boston: Dept. of University Extension, Massachusetts Board of Education, 1917. (Bulletin, v. 2, no. 5, Sept. 1917. Whole no. 11.) LC call number: LC6252.M4A3 http://lccn.loc.gov/e17000653 Goodfellow, Mrs. Mrs. Goodfellow’s Cookery As It Should Be: A New Manual of the Dining Room and Kitchen. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, 1865. LC call number: TX715.G651 SciRR Desk http://lccn.loc.gov/08023694 Goudiss, C. Houston, and Alberta M. Goudiss. Foods That Will Win the War, and How to Cook Them. New York: World Syndicate Company, c1918. LC call number: TX357.G6 http://lccn.loc.gov/18005661 >> Back to top of page Hague, Parthenia Antoinette. A Blockaded Family: Life in Southern Alabama During the Civil War. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1888. LC call number: Microfilm 8534 E http://lccn.loc.gov/02017890 Handy, Amy L. War Food: Practical and Economical Methods of Keeping Vegetables, Fruits and Meats. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1917. LC call number: TX601.H2 http://lccn.loc.gov/17021110 Herrick, Christine Terhune. Liberal Living Upon Narrow Means. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1890. LC call number: TX715.H563 http://lccn.loc.gov/12036060 Hill, Janet McKenzie. Canning, Preserving and Jelly Making. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1915. LC call number: TX601.H6 http://lccn.loc.gov/15018844 -----. War Time Recipes. Cincinnati: Proctor and Gamble Company, c1918. LC call number: TX715.H678 SciRR http://lccn.loc.gov/18018682 Howland, E. A. The New England Economical Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book. Worcester: S. A. Howland, 1845. LC call number: TX715.H863 1845 SciRR http://lccn.loc.gov/27021834 Hughes, Dora Morrell. Thrift in the Household. Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1918. LC call number: TX145.H88 http://lccn.loc.gov/18009464 Hurn, Ethel Alice. Wisconsin Women in the War Between the States. Madison: Wisconsin History Commission, 1911. (Wisconsin History Commission. Original Papers, no. 6.) LC call number: E537.4.W8, no. 6 http://lccn.loc.gov/11015204 Kinghorne, J. W. Preserving Eggs. Washington: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1920. (Farmers Bulletin, 1109.) LC call number: S21.A6, no. 1109 http://lccn.loc.gov/agr16000325 Knight, Mrs. S.G. Tit-bits or, How to Prepare a Nice Dish at a Moderate Expense. Boston: Crosby and Nichols; New York: O. S. Felt, 1864. LC call number: TX715.K689 SciRR http://lccn.loc.gov/08022856 Lusk, Graham. Food in War Time. Philadelphia, London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1918. LC call number: TX357.L8 http://lccn.loc.gov/18003809 Morton, Lillian. Thrift Cook Book for the Economical Housewife: Proven Recipes of Delicious Foods Helping to Conserve Wheat, Sugar, Beef, and Other Expensive Materials, and Still Supply Attractive and Healthful Meals at Home. Chicago: Shrewsbury Publishing Co., c1918. LC call number: TX715.M9 SciRR http://lccn.loc.gov/19002724 >> Back to top of page Murphy, Bessie R., comp. Legumes: Dried Beans, Peas, Lentils for Breakfast, Dinner, Supper. Chicago, New York: Rand, McNally and Co., c1920. LC call number: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00144846850 http://lccn.loc.gov/20007744 Murphy, Margot. Wartime Meals, How to Plan Them, How to Buy Them, How to Cook Them. New York: Greenberg, 1942. LC call number: TX357.M88 http://lccn.loc.gov/42019084 National War Garden Commission. Home Drying Manual for Vegetables and Fruits. Washington: National Emergency Food Garden Commission, c1917. LC call number: TX609.N3 http://lccn.loc.gov/17021360 Neil, Marion Harris. Canning, Preserving and Pickling. Philadelphia: D. McKay, c1914. LC call number TX601.N5 http://lccn.loc.gov/2006462631 -----. The Thrift Cook Book. Philadelphia: D. McKay, c1919. LC call number TX715.N396 SciRR http://lccn.loc.gov/19019145 “Our Women in the War.” The Lives They Lived, the Deaths They Died. Charleston, S.C.: The News and Courier Book Presses, 1885. LC call number: Microfilm 8548 E http://lccn.loc.gov/05041680 Paul, Sara T. The Economical Cook Book. Philadelphia: The International Press, c1905. LC call number: TX715.P327 http://lccn.loc.gov/05032505 Porcher, Francis Peyre. Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. New ed. Charleston: Walker, Evans & Cogswell, Printers, 1869. LC call number: SB108.U6S76 1869 http://lccn.loc.gov/11013842 Available online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/scd0001.00027632087 Richardson, Anna Steese Sausser. Adventures in Thrift. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., c1916. LC call number: TX356.R5 http://lccn.loc.gov/16007927 Rorer, Sara Tyson (Heston). Canning and Preserving. Philadelphia: Arnold and Company, 1887. LC call number: TX601.R78 http://lccn.loc.gov/07028887 Smith, Coral B. New Dishes from Left-Overs. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1933. LC call number: TX715.S6515 http://lccn.loc.gov/33031242 United Daughters of the Confederacy. South Carolina Division. South Carolina Women in the Confederacy: Records Collected by Mrs. A. T. Smythe, Miss M. B. Poppenheim and Mrs. Thomas Taylor. Ed. and pub. by Mrs. Thomas Taylor, Chairman, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. August Kohn, Miss Poppenheim, Miss Martha B. Washington, State Committee, Daughters of the Confederacy. Columbia, S.C.: The State Company, 1903-7. LC call number: E577.U58 http://lccn.loc.gov/03021011 >> Back to top of page United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1886. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1887. LC call number: S21.A2, 1886 http://lccn.loc.gov/agr09000985 Walker, C. Irvine, comp. The Women of the Southern Confederacy During the War 1861-5: Original Historic Incidents of Their Heroism, Suffering and Devotion. Published in “Our Women in the War” supplements to leading newspapers in Tennessee and Mississippi, together with Arkansas memorial, clipped from original publications and arranged under direction of Gen’l C. Irvine Walker ... under whose general supervision, aiding the work for the memorials to the women of the confederacy, the various supplements were published. Charleston, S.C.: n.p., 1908. LC call number: E487.W852 fol. http://lccn.loc.gov/08027836 -----, comp. The Women of the Southern Confederacy During the War 1861-5: Original Historic Incidents of their Heroism, Suffering and Devotion. Published in “Our Women in the War” supplements to leading newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama, clipped from original publications and arranged under direction of Gen’l C. Irvine Walker ... under whose general supervision, aiding the work for the memorials to the women of the confederacy, the various supplements were published. Charleston, S.C.: n.p., 1906? LC call number: E487.W85 fol. http://lccn.loc.gov/08006276 Watkins, John Elfreth. “Our Daily Bread: What the Government Chemists are Learning About our Food Faults.” Reader: An Illustrated Monthly Magazine 6 (June 1905): 61-68. LC call number: AP2.R25 http://lccn.loc.gov/05026875 Wilson, Mary Elizabeth Lyles, Mrs. W. H. Wilson, and Mollie Huggins. Good Things to Eat. Nashville, Tenn., Dallas, Tex.: Publishing House of the M. E. Church, Smith & Lamar, Agents, 1909. LC call number: TX715.W7515 http://lccn.loc.gov/09027411 Wright, Julia McNair. The Complete Home. Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Ohio, etc.: J. C. McCurdy & Co., 1879. LC call number: HQ734.W95 http://lccn.loc.gov/09004012 Print Sources on Thrift in the Home: Secondary Sources and Modern Examples Bentley, Amy. Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, c1998. LC call number: D810.W7B45 1998 http://lccn.loc.gov/97045471 Burroughs, Frances M. “The Confederate Receipt Book: A Study of Food Substitution in the American Civil War.” South Carolina Historical Magazine 93 (1992): 31-50. LC call number: F266.S55 http://lccn.loc.gov/05032201 Chambers, Trish. Civil War Women: Their Roles and Legacies. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2005. LC call number: E628.C46 2005 http://lccn.loc.gov/2005900910 Currie, Stephen. Women of the Civil War. San Diego: Lucent Books, c2003. LC call number: E628.C87 2003 http://lccn.loc.gov/2002004108 >> Back to top of page Davis, William C. A Taste for War: the Culinary History of the Blue and the Gray. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, c2003. LC call number: E468.9.D285 2003 http://lccn.loc.gov/2003003849 Eighmey, Rae Katherine. Food Will Win the War: Minnesota Crops, Cooks, and Conservation during World War I. St Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 2010. LC call number: TX357.E45 2010 http://lccn.loc.gov/2009003173 Lawson, Laura J. City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2005. LC call number: SB457.3.L49 2005 <SciRR> http://lccn.loc.gov/2004010999 Pilato, Denise E. The Retrieval of a Legacy: Nineteenth-Century American Women Inventors. Westport, Conn.: Prager, 2000. LC call number: T36.P55 2000 <SciRR> http://lccn.loc.gov/99055017 Rumble, Victoria R. Soup Through the Ages: A Culinary History with Period Recipes. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., Inc., c2009. LC call number: TX757.R86 2009 http://lccn.loc.gov/2009011893 Shephard, Sue. Pickled, Potted, and Canned: How the Art and Science of Food Preserving Changed the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. LC call number: TX601.S47 2006 <SciRR> http://lccn.loc.gov/2006287095 Simkins, Francis Butler, and James Welch Patton. Women of the Confederacy. Richmond, New York: Garrett and Massie, Inc., c1936. LC call number: E628.S56 http://lccn.loc.gov/36024924 Solomon, Steve. Gardening When it Counts: Growing Food in Hard Times. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, c2005. LC call number: SB321.S64 2005 http://lccn.loc.gov/2007310496 Spaulding, Lily May, and John Spaulding, eds. Civil War Recipes: Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, c1999. LC call number: TX715.C57427 1999 http://lccn.loc.gov/98034445 Sperling, John G. Great Depressions: 1837-1844, 1893-1898, 1929-1939. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1966. LC call number: HB3743.S6 http://lccn.loc.gov/65026546 Wolf, Ray, ed. Eating Better for Less: A Guide to Managing your Personal Food Supply. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, c1978. LC call number: TX601.E37 http://lccn.loc.gov/77026011 >> Back to top of page Periodicals Atlantic Monthly. LC call number: AP2.A8 http://lccn.loc.gov/05022829 Cooking Club Magazine. LC call number: TX1.C8 http://lccn.loc.gov/ca08003543 Delineator. LC call number: TT500.D3 http://lccn.loc.gov/48040320 Farmer’s Wife. LC call number: S1.F72 http://lccn.loc.gov/56049142 Forecast for Home Economists. LC call number: TX1.F7 http://lccn.loc.gov/53037516 Good Housekeeping. LC call number: TX1.G7 http://lccn.loc.gov/81644319, http://lccn.loc.gov/82640543, http://lccn.loc.gov/82640544 The Household. LC call number: TX1.H78 http://lccn.loc.gov/60030021 Hunt’s Merchants’ Magazine and Commercial Review. LC call number: HF1.M5 http://lccn.loc.gov/05023610 Ladies’ Home Journal. LC call number: Microfilm 05422 (1884-1907); 06262 (1908- ) http://lccn.loc.gov/sf89099013, http://lccn.loc.gov/sf89099012, http://lccn.loc.gov/sf87091431, http://lccn.loc.gov/sn94096110, http://lccn.loc.gov/sf87091432 Table Talk. LC call number: TX1.T3 http://lccn.loc.gov/ca09000284 Thrift Magazine. LC call number: HG7931.A1T4 http://lccn.loc.gov/unk83017853 To-day’s Housewife. LC call number: TX1.T6 http://lccn.loc.gov/06031027 United States. Committee on Public Information. Official U. S. Bulletin. LC call number: D570.A2A3 http://lccn.loc.gov/17026398 United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Food Thrift Series. LC call number: TX341.U6 http://lccn.loc.gov/agr17000479 Woman’s Weekly. LC call number: AP2.W734 http://lccn.loc.gov/19012546 Woman’s World. LC call number: AP2.W74 http://lccn.loc.gov/ca09001183, http://lccn.loc.gov/sn98047790 >> Back to top of page

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