Heading: (Massachusetts)
Author: Various Authors
Title: Five 19th Century Community Cookbooks
Place Published: Various Places
Publisher:
Date Published: Various Dates
Description:

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  Ladies of the First Parish Church, Malden. Gathered Treasures. 96 pp. Cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers. 1st Ed. (Hominy waffles, Parker House rolls, potted pigeons, clam chowder, macaroni salad, berry hurry, and other Boston-centric recipes, all printed in beautiful, fancy type, and interspersed with elaborately engraved ads for Boston businesses. Period newspaper clippings mounted to first few ad pp, else good). Boston: C.E. Ellis, 1881.


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  Ladies Connected with the First Universalist Society in Southbridge. The Home-Made Cook Book. 112 pp. Illus. with numerous engraved ads. Cloth-backed pictorial stiff wrappers. Second Edition, revised, enlarged & improved. (Mrs. Beecher's raised doughnuts, squash biscuit, fried cod, puree of clams, Judge Peter's pudding, blueberry cake and pop doodles are among the delicacies herein. Small piece of corners of front wrapper lacking, else very good). Southbridge, MA: 1887.


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  Ladies' Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. Proved and Tested Cooking Receipts and Other Valuable Information. 84 pp. Illus. with numerous engraved ads. Cloth-backed stiff wrappers. First Edition. (A charmingly engraved little cookbook, with recipes for broiled partridges, Green Mountain cake, oyster pie, fish chowder, Mrs. Woodman's cake, delicate Indian pudding, etc. Small pieces of lower corners of wrappers lacking, else good). Merrimac, MA: Budget Office, 1890.


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  Choice Receipts, Compiled Expressly for the Unitarian Fair, August, 1890. 23 pp. Pictorial wrappers. (Founded in 1620 by the Pilgrims in Plymouth, First Parish Church in Plymouth is a historic Unitarian Universalist church, and is the oldest church congregation in the United States in continuous operation. Recipes from America's earliest colony, including Pigeon Cove gingerbread, justice pudding, pickled string beans, quaking custard, etc. Very good and quite scarce). Plymouth, MA: Avery & Doten, 1890.


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  Ladies Auxiliary of the Y.M.C.A. The Practical Cook: A Collection of Tested Recipes. 158 pp. Gilt-lettered blue cloth. First Edition. (Blueberry breakfast cake, Quaker omelet, roast partridge, roasted oysters on toast, quince pickle, and other Yankee fare. Tearing to cloth along front hinge, chipping to spine ends, else good). Southbridge, MA: Journal Steam Book Print, 1891.