Second Edition. Trinity Parish Cook Book. [Compiled and Edited by the Ladies of Trinity Parish.
Torrington, Conn. The Church; Printed by] The Torrington Printing Company, 1911.
Octavo (23.25 x 15.75 cm.), 99, [iii] pages. Advertisements (some illustrated). Author from prefatory remarks on title page. Printer from rear panel of wrappers. Stated Second Edition, “revised and enlarged.” A church cookbook with more than four hundred recipes, many of them attributed. Included among the entries: Sweet Rusk, Asparagus Soup, Green PeaSoup, Oyster Fritters, Turbot à la Crème, Frizzled Ham and Eggs, Scalloped Apples, Kohlrabi, Cabbage Salad (with nasturtiums), Fruit Cottage Pudding, Yorkshire Pudding, Coffee Layer Cake, Belden Cake, English Eccles Cake, Apricot Souffle, Dandelion Wine, Hot Cross Buns. ~ Like most hillside settlements along the roiling Naugatuck River, Torrington began as a British mill town in 1740, excelling first in the production of wool, and later – exceptionally – in the processing of brass. Under English rule, towns were ecclesiastical societies – or to put it another way, aggregations who agreed to be taxed to support a church were conferred the administrative status “town.” Torrington’s first church was a nondenominational Church of Christ in the congregational mold. The better part of a century later Baptists and Methodists gained a foothold, and following them several families of Episcopalians organized, taking the name Trinity Parish and meeting in a communal space called the Academy in 1843. By the end of 1844 there stood a wooden church, consecrated by the bishop – the same Thomas Brownell who founded Trinity College in Hartford – at the corner of Water and Prospect Streets. ~ In 1875 a fund was Text Box:established to build a stone church in the grand Victorian manner, the planning for which was eventually turned over to the famous architect Henry Martyn Congdon (1834-1922). The original church was moved back from the street and preserved for parish use, and on the original lot was erected a neo-Gothic structure with a turreted bell tower housing a clock by the Connecticut Seth Thomas Company. Trinity Parish Cook Book appeared shortly after the tenth anniversary of the installation of the high altar, stenciled ceilings, marble baptistry font, and themed stained-glass windows. ~ Some edge-wear and staining; several pages dog-eared. Still better than good in stapled gray wrappers, titled in red, and backed in original red cloth tape; corners bumped, and rear panel creased. Scarce. [OCLC locates three copies; Cook, page 46, acknowledging also an undated (earlier?) edition; Brown 313, and the undated edition (391); not in Cagle].
Price: $90.00