Wandering through to mention that your local library almost certainly has a collection of cookbooks spanning decades, and, depending on your area, might even have stuff tied specifically to your region. Take the book, photocopy the recipes you’re interested in, return it, get to cooking!
…So are we going back to print cookbooks? Published before 2024?
Honestly, that feels like the practical solution.
America’s Test Kitchen. All you need. Recipes for nerds.
my mother has something like 8000 cookbooks she’s collected from the 1930s to around 2015.
I think I’m set.
Wandering through to mention that your local library almost certainly has a collection of cookbooks spanning decades, and, depending on your area, might even have stuff tied specifically to your region. Take the book, photocopy the recipes you’re interested in, return it, get to cooking!
Until they fake author or print dates.