Directions in nostalgic cookbooks

[bjh]

Here's a conversion for slow, medium, fast oven temps:
Online Conversion - Oven Temperatures

Slow or "cool" in the 200°s F
Moderate in the 300°s
Fast or hot in the 400°s

Here's one for a whole host of things.
http://www.onlineconversion.com/cooking_volume.htm

Lemme see if I can find a chart of cans only.

Here's the can sizes:
http://lancaster.unl.edu/food/ciq-can-sizes.shtml

Right these down or print this out so you can try old recipes with confidence!

[tasmtairy]

My oldest is 1942, the American woman's cook book, it was my Grandma's!!

I will have to investigate it further.

[groar]

i love old cookbooks! especially the illustrations.

has anyone ever seen the "gallery of regrettable food"? it's all really hilarious illustrations from old cookbooks. i think most of them are from old editions of the women's day encyclopedia of cookery, if i remember correctly. the guy who made it has published the pictures and his comments in a book, so most of them aren't online, but there's a selection here: LILEKS (James) Gallery of Regrettable Food

his site is worth browsing around, there's some interesting stuff there.