r/fromscratch

I made this - https://hungrydemocracy.com/ .

It started because I kept finding incredible recipes locked inside old public-domain cookbooks written in unreadable archaic prose - quantities like "a teacupful," no real method, knowledge they just assumed you had. So I built something that rewrites them into clean, cookable modern recipes while keeping the actual history intact: it restructures and rewrites the original, it doesn't invent anything, it flags whatever's uncertain, and it removes recipes with toxic or unsafe ingredients that old cookbooks sometimes call for. Because the sources are public domain, everything's drawn from real historical cookbooks - nothing's made up. Free to browse, no signup. I'd love to know which era or cuisine you'd want resurrected - happy to go dig one up.