Rediscover the smells and tastes of your ancestors’ kitchen.
Barry’s Forgotten Recipes is about sharing cookbooks and recipes of our ancestors. From generation to generation, family and friends came together for the main meal of the day and for conversation. Renew the powerful memories of smell, taste, and sharing food. Remember the traditions that linked generations.
Recipes in this sampling represent over 50 cookbooks from 1832 to 1928 and are represented exactly as they were presented in in the original cookbook. No correction has been made for grammar, spelling, or punctuation. The recipes are provided for your enjoyment. If you choose to try any recipes, you do so at your own risk without guarantee of satisfaction.
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Category Recipes
- Recipe: Bacon and Apple Roly-poly
- Recipe: Bacon and Eggs
- Recipe: Bacon Combined with Other Food
- Recipe: Bake Slice of Ham
- Recipe: Baked Ham
- Recipe: Baked Ham
- Recipe: Baked Ham and Potato
- Recipe: Baked Ham and Potato
- Recipe: Baked Ham, Virginia
- Recipe: Baked Pig’s Head
- Recipe: Baked Slice Ham
- Recipe: Boiled Bacon and Cabbages
- Recipe: Boiled Ham
- Recipe: Boiled Ham
- Recipe: Boiled Let of Pork
- Recipe: Boston Pork and Beans
- Recipe: Breakfast Bacon
- Recipe: Broiled Ham
- Recipe: Cold Bacon and Eggs
- Recipe: Cold Pork with Fried Apples
- Recipe: Collared Pork
- Recipe: Common Pigeons-Meat
- Recipe: Country Pork Pigeons
- Recipe: Directions for Curing Ham or Bacon
- Recipe: English Ham Pie
- Recipe: Fish Cakes with Pork Scraps
- Recipe: Fish Sauteed with Salt Pork
- Recipe: Fresh Pork Pot-Pie
- Recipe: Fried Ham and Eggs
- Recipe: Fried Pork Chops
- Recipe: Fried Salt Pork
- Recipe: Grilled Salt Pork
- Recipe: Ham Baked in Milk
- Recipe: Ham Mousse
- Recipe: Ham Pie
- Recipe: Ham Sandwiches
- Recipe: Ham Souffle
- Recipe: Italian Cutlets
- Recipe: Liver and Bacon, Creole
- Recipe: Pan-Broiled Chops
- Recipe: Parsley Sauce for Ham
- Recipe: Pickled Pork and Pease Pudding
- Recipe: Pig’s Feet and Ears Soused
- Recipe: Pigs’ Feet Pickled
- Recipe: Pork and Beans
- Recipe: Pork and Beans
- Recipe: Pork and Beans (Baked)
- Recipe: Pork and Onions
- Recipe: Pork and Onions
- Recipe: Pork Cheese
- Recipe: Pork Chops
- Recipe: Pork Chops and Fried Apples
- Recipe: Pork Chops Baked with Potatoes
- Recipe: Pork Chops in Tomato Sauce
- Recipe: Pork Cutlets
- Recipe: Pork Pie
- Recipe: Pork Pigeons
- Recipe: Pork Pot Pie
- Recipe: Pork Tenderloin
- Recipe: Pork Tenderloins
- Recipe: Potted Ham
- Recipe: Roast Fresh Ham
- Recipe: Roast Leg of Pork
- Recipe: Roast Pig
- Recipe: Roast Pork
- Recipe: Roast Pork and Apples
- Recipe: Salt Chowder
- Recipe: Salt Pork
- Recipe: Sauted or Broiled Pork
- Recipe: Sauted Tenderloin of Pork
- Recipe: Scalloped Ham and Homny
- Recipe: Scalloped Pork and Cabbage
- Recipe: To Bake a Ham (Corned)
- Recipe: To Boil Corned Pork
- Recipe: To Cure Hams and Bacon (A Prize Recipe)
- Recipe: To Glaze a Cold Ham
- Recipe: To Imitate Westphalia Ham
- Recipe: To Roast A Leg of Pork
- Recipe: To Roast a Loin of Pork
- Recipe: To Roast A Middling or Spring Piece of Pork
- Recipe: To Roast Pig
- Recipe: To Smoke Hams and Fish at Home
- Recipe: To Stew Pork