Baker’s Guide

Or,
The Art of Baking
Designed for Practical Bakers
and Pastry Cooks
T his facsimile edition of Baker’s Guide by John Weild
was reproduced by permission from the volume in
the collection of the American Antiquarian Society (AAS),
Worcester, Massachusetts. Founded in 1812 by Isaiah Thomas, a
Revolutionary War patriot and successful printer and publisher,
the Society is a research library documenting the life of Americans
from the colonial era through 1876. AAS aims to collect, preserve,
and make available as complete a record as possible of the printed
materials from the early American experience. The cookbook
collection includes approximately 1,100 volumes.
 Ot h e r B o o k s i n
t h e Am e r i c a n A n t i q u a r i a n S o c i e t y
Cookbook Collection
1776-1876:The Centennial Cook Book
and General Guide, by Mrs. Ella E.
Myers
American Cookery, by Amelia Simmons
The American Family Keepsake, by The
Good Samaritan
The American Vine-Dresser’s Guide, by
John James Dufour
Apician Morsels, by Dick Humelbergius
Secundus
The Appledore Cookbook, by Maria
Parloa
The Art of Dining, and the Art of
Attaining High Health, by Thomas
Walker
California Recipe Book, by Ladies of
California
The Canadian Housewife’s Manual of
Cookery
Canoe and Camp Cookery, by Seneca
The Caroline Housewife, by Sarah
Rutledge
The Compleat Housewife, by Eliza
Smith
The Complete Confectioner, Pastry-
Cook, and Baker, by Eleanor
Parkinson
The Complete Cook, by J.M.Sanderson
The Cook Book of Rare and Valuable
Recipes
The Cook Not Mad
The Cook’s Oracle and Housekeeper’s
Manual, by William Kitchiner, M.D.
The Cook’s Own Book, and
Housekeeper’s Register, by Mrs.
N.K.M. Lee
The Cooking Manual of Practical
Directions for Economical Every-Day
Cookery, by Juliet Corson
Cottage Economy, by William Cobbett
Confederate Receipt Book
Crumbs from the Round Table, by Joseph
Barber
Dainty Dishes, by Lady Harriet E. St.
Clair
Dairying Exemplified, by Josiah
Twamley
De Witt’s Connecticut Cook, and
Housekeeper’s Assistant, by Mrs. N.
Orr
The Dessert Book, by A Boston Lady
Directions for Cookery, by Eliza Leslie
Directions for Cooking by Troops, in
Camp and Hospital, by Florence
Nightingale
Domestic French Cookery, by L.E. Audot
Every Lady’s Cook Book, by Mrs. T. J.
Crowen
Fifteen Cent Dinners for Families of Six,
by Juliet Corson
The French Cook, by Louis Eustache
Ude
The Frugal Housewife, by Susannah
Carter
The Frugal Housewife, by Lydia Maria
Child
The Hand-Book of Carving
The Hand-Book of Practical Cookery,
for Ladies and Professional Cooks, by
Pierre Blot
The Health Reformer’s Cook Book, by
Mrs. Lucretia E. Jackson
The House Servant’s Directory, by
Robert Roberts
The Housekeeper’s Manual
How to Mix Drinks, by Jerry Thomas
The Hygienic Cook Book, by John
Harvey Kellogg
Jewish Cookery Book, by Esther Levy
The Kansas Home Cook-Book, by the
Ladies of Leavenworth
Mackenzie’s Five Thousand Receipts in
All the Useful and Domestic Arts, by
Colin Mackenzie
Miss Beecher’s Domestic Receipt Book, by
Catharine Beecher
Miss Leslie’s New Cookery Book, by
Eliza Leslie
Modern Cookery, In All Its Branches, by
Eliza Acton and Sarah J. Hale
Modern Domestic Cookery, and Useful
Receipt Book, by W. A. Henderson
The Modern Family Receipt Book, by
Mrs. Mary Holland
Mrs. Hale’s New Cook Book, by Mrs.
Sarah J. Hale
Mrs. Owen’s Illinois Cook Book, by Mrs.
T.J.V. Owens
Mrs. Porter’s New Southern Cookery
Book, by Mrs. M.E. Porter
My Mother’s Cook Book, by Ladies of
St. Louis
The National Cook Book, by Eliza
Leslie
New American Cookery, by An
American Lady
The New Art of Cookery, by Richard
Briggs
The New England Cook Book
The New England Economical
Housekeeper, and Family Receipt Book,
by Esther A. Howland
The New Housekeeper’s Manual, by
Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet
Beecher Stowe
The New Hydropathic Cook Book, by
Russell Thacher Trall
The New Whole Art of Confectionary, by
W.Young
Nouvelle Cuisiniere Canadienne
One Thousand Valuable Secrets in the
Elegant and Useful Arts
The Pantropheon, by Alexis Soyer
The People’s Manual, by Perrin Bliss
The Philosophy of Eating, by Albert
Bellows
The Physiology of Taste, by Jean A.
Brillat-Savarin
The Picayune’s Creole Cookbook, by The
Picayune
The Practical Distiller, by John Wyeth
Presbyterian Cook Book
Science in the Kitchen, by Thomas
Hopkins and Mrs. L.A. Hopkins
Seventy-Five Receipts for Pastry, Cakes,
and Sweetmeats, by Eliza Leslie
The Times’ Recipes, by The New York
Times
Total Abstinence Cookery
A Treatise on Bread, by Sylvester
Graham
Vegetable Diet, by William Alcott
The Virginia Housewife, by Mary
Randolph
What to Do with the Cold Mutton
What to Eat and How to Cook It, by
Joseph Cowan
The Young Housekeeper, by William
Alcott
Baker’s Guide

Or,
The Art of Baking
Designed for Practical Bakers
and Pastry Cooks

h
John Weild
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