Recently I bought a little booklet, Kate Sargeant's One Hundred Mushroom Receipts, published in 2006, by Fred Kelso, Hengwrt Publishing Company, Lewisville, Pennsylvania. It is a reprint of the original book, published in 1899 by Charles Orr, Cleveland, Ohio. It is presumably the first English language cookbook dedicated to the little mushroom. In Mr. Kelso's introduction, he mentions "there were no other mushroom cookbooks published until Countess Morphy's 1938 Mushroom Recipes".
So I had a look in the library here at Kitchen Garden Books and came up with some other titles to add to a bibliography. In Lavonne Brady Axford's excellent bibliography, English Language Cookbooks 1600-1973, there is a list of more than two dozen books about mushroom cooking, some more contemporary (not included) and she was so useful in compiling this list.
William Rubel of Santa Cruz, California contacted me recently with several excellent additions, noted by an *asterik. He recommends those marked with the pound sign# as being particularly important. Thank you William!
A Treatise on the Esculent Funguses of England Dr. Badham London 1847
*An Elementary Text-Book of British Fungi William Delisle Hay
London S. Sonnenschein & Lowrey 1887
Mushrooms: How To Grow Them. A Practical Treatise on Mushroom Culture for Profit & Pleasure William Falconer Orange Judd New York 1891
Edible & Poisonous Mushrooms: What to Eat & What to Avoid M. C. Cooke Soc Promoting Christian Knowledge London 1894
Our Edible Toadstools & Mushrooms W. Hamilton Gibson Harper New York 1895
*#Annual Report of the State Botanist of the State of NY Charles Peck J. B. Lyon New York 1896
One Hundred Mushroom Receipts Kate Sargeant Charles Orr Cleveland 1899
Among the Mushrooms Ellen Dallas & Caroline Burgi Drexel & Biddle New York 1900
#Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms. Edible, Poisonous, etc. George F. Atkinson Henry Holt New York. Recipes for Cooking Mushrooms by Mrs. Sarah Tyson Rorer 1900
One Thousand American Fungi Charles McIlvaine The Bowen-Merrill Co. Indianapolis 1900
#The Mushroom Book Nina L. Marshall Doubleday Page & Co New York 1901
*The Mushroom: Edible & Otherwise M. E. Hard The Ohio Library Company Columbus 1908
Mushrooms William Falconer New York 1910
Mushroom Growing B.B. Duggar Orange Judd New York 1920
*Field book of common gilled mushrooms William Sturgis Thomas G.P. Putnam’s Sons New York 1928
*The Mushroom Handbook L.C.C. Kreiger Macmillan NY 1936
Some Edible Mushrooms Nina Lane Faubion Binfords & Mort Portland Oregon 1938
Mushroom Recipes Countess Morphy Herbert Joseph Ltd. London c1938
Mushroom Cookery Helmut Ripperger George W. Stewart New York 1941
Edible Fungi John Ramsbottom King Penguin Books London 1943
Common Edible Mushrooms Clyde M. Christensen Uof Minn Press Minneapolis 1943
Edible Fungi W.H. Cobb Arandar Books London 1946
Manual of Mushroom Culture Retten & Thompson Toughkenamon Penn 1948
Mycophagists' Book Patricia H. Evans Peregrine Press San Francisco 1951
Mushrooms Galore Andre Simon Newman Neame London 1951
Mushroom Cook Book Garibaldi M. Lapolla Wilfred Funk New York 1953
Mycogastronomie Paul Ramain Paris 1954
*Mushrooms, Russia & History Valentina Pavlovna Wasson & R. Gordon Wasson Pantheon Books New York 1957
Mushroom Cookery Rosetta Reitz Walker & Company New York 1965
Do you know of any other early mushroom cookery books? Please forward them to me and I'll keep the list updated.
In December 2009 I received an update from Fred Kelso about his newly published excellent mushroom bibliography, For the love of fungus ; A one hundred year bibliography of Mushroom Cookery 1899 - 1999. It is available from Hengwrt Publishing Company, 322 Mill Pond Lane, Oxford, PA 19363.
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