There is a 2 volume Meta Givens Encyclopedia cookbook that has just about every receipe you can imagine. I think it might have been one of the resource books for the BC cookbook. If you see it in a used book store or elsewhere you should snap it up in an instant. Among other things it has the absolutely best fried onion ring receipe ever invented. These old cookbooks are the very best, because they expect you to cook, not combine ingredients and heat.
If you find a cookbook that is older than the invention of the electric mixer you will really find the receipes are quite different - mix with a whisk for 45 minutes- that kind of thing. Really makes for interesting reading, but not the way I bake.