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The examples presented in this article show the importance of a recipe (and in a broader context, a cookery book) as a source allowing to learn about everyday life. Analyzing and interpreting them, historians can not only obtain data on basic food items in each historical period, their energy value and use, but also find out what the nutrition model in that period was. What is more, some casual remarks made by authors, may be significant for the research on changes in general manners and etiquette.