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+# 🍽️ Vintage American Recipes Dataset (1940–1999)
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+A curated collection of vintage American recipes extracted from church cookbooks, bulletins, and magazines spanning 1940 to 1999. Each recipe is cleaned, structured in JSON, and includes fields such as title, ingredients, instructions, and category.
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+# 🍽️ Vintage American Recipes Dataset (1940–1999)
+
+A curated collection of vintage American recipes extracted from church cookbooks, bulletins, and magazines spanning 1940 to 1999. Each recipe is cleaned, structured in JSON, and includes fields such as title, ingredients, instructions, and category.
+
+## 📦 Dataset Structure
+
+- Format: JSON
+- Number of records: 77 (in this version)
+- Fields:
+  - `title`
+  - `ingredients`
+  - `instructions`
+  - `category`
+  - `year`
+
+## 🔍 Use Cases
+
+- Recipe generation
+- Historical food analysis
+- Fine-tuning models (GPT-2, GPT-J, LLaMA)
+- Text classification or clustering
+
+## 🙋 Author
+
+Created and curated by **Donglin Xiong** (@donglin1608)
+
+## 🧠 Example
+
+```json
+{
+  "title": "Grandma’s Apple Pie",
+  "ingredients": [
+    "6 apples, sliced",
+    "1 cup sugar",
+    "2 tsp cinnamon",
+    "1 pie crust"
+  ],
+  "instructions": "Mix all ingredients. Place in crust. Bake at 375°F for 45 minutes.",
+  "category": "Dessert",
+  "year": 1955
+}