[Raynham, Mass.]: [The Church], [circa 1900]. Stapled booklet, (18.75 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements throughout. Title from cover. Identification of church surmised from photo-reproduction on cover. Date of publication proposed from internal evidence. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Tentatively identified community recipe collection of modest proportions, with some two hundred brief entries solicited from acquaintances in both Bristol County and around the nation. Recipes include: Maryland Beat Biscuits (from Baltimore).....

Westfield, Mass. Press of The Valley Echo, 1900. Octavo (20 x 13.25 cm), 92 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. An unreported church cookbook with three hundred recipes, the majority attributed. Fully of its era, emphasizing baked goods, sweets, and puddings – with five separate approaches to Walnut Cake, and five renditions also of Lemon Pie. Settlers from Northampton, in what is now the central western county of Hampshire, moved to.....

Chaumont, N.Y. Ladies' Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1897. Octavo-sized stapled booklet (23 x 15 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements. Stated Second Edition (on wrappers only). An attractively designed church cookbook emanating from a hamlet in Jefferson County (near Lake Ontario), whose central district is now listed in The National Register of Historic Places. The Methodist Episcopal Society traces its presence in Chaumont to the earliest days of settlement.....

Plattsburgh, N.Y. Telegram Printing House, 1890. Duodecimo-size (18.5 x 12 cm.), [iv], 185 pages. Fourth edition, inferred from existence of a third edition, published by A.M. Warren, dated 1880. A well-produced church cookbook from the northern New York State town of Plattsburgh. Of the more than six hundred recipes, a number of pies hold especial interest: Silver Pie, made with potato and lemon; Acid Pie, made with tartaric acid and.....