July 6

Here's a cookbook from 1902 that might give you some fun ideas for your meals! There's one recipe for each day, many entrees, but also side dishes and desserts and stuff. They're really to get you started on your own cooking; probably following many of them step-by-step over 100 years later might be frustrating and might turn out weird. I think I might post some of the most intriguing ideas over the year...It's apparently a compilation from magazines around in those days: Boston Cooking School Magazine, Table Talk, Good Housekeeping!, "and others."

Speaking of Good Housekeeping, here's also a darling old cover from them, though from almost 30 years after the cookbook -- 1931.

The cookbook is available free at http://www.archive.org/details/luncheondisheslu00philrich (I love getting the PDF style because then I can see an old cover, enjoy the old layout, etc.); but it's also available free in the Kindle store and surely other places.