Granby, Conn. The Society, 1929. Small octavo (20 x 13 cm.), 55, [xiii] pages. Cover title: The Granby Cook Book. Advertisements appended. ~ Evident FIRST EDITION. A cogent church cookbook with just over two hundred attributed recipes, intended in part to show off the fare (and bounty) of church suppers at South Congregational. For those preparing to cook in volume: a Baked Beans supper for one hundred requires eight quarts.....

Willimantic, Conn. [The Auxiliary; Printed by]; Chronicle Print, [circa 1925]. Octavo (25.5 x 17.25 cm.), 91 pages. Table of contents. Stated third edition. A hospital charity cookbook with four hundred fifty recipes, a majority of them attributed; with credits to compilers of each chapter. Entries warranting attention: Asparagus Soup, Chartreuse of Rice and Meat, Poor Man’s Loaf, Corned Beef Salad, Quaker Salad, Eggs and Mushrooms, Parsnip Cakes, Tomato Jelly, Stuffed.....

San Francisco, Calif. Lane Publishing Co.; Published by Sunset Magazine in Cooperation with Hotel Del Monte, 1940. Large octavo, 62 pages. Index. Illustrated; printed throughout in black and pale brown. Second edition, originally published under the slightly different title, Famous Recipes of Famous People, and issued by the Hotel del Monte without Sunset Magazine in 1936. A compilation of celebrity recipes, with the recipes attributed to the famous including: Gertrude.....

Rowley, MA: Historical Society for the benefit of restoring the Platts-Bradstreet House, 1922. Duodecimo, 64 pages. FIRST EDITION. A small New England charity cookbook, with good sections on cakes, cookies, ginger breads and doughnuts as well as pickles. In black printed brown paper wrappers. Very near fine. [OCLC locates four copies only].

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.....

Warehouse Point, East Windsor, Conn. The Church, 1927. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 92 pages. Includes table of contents. Advertising interspersed. Evident FIRST EDITION. A church cookbook with two hundred eighty attributed recipes, from the North Central Connecticut community of East Windsor. Meat dishes document the “international” interest of the 1920s: English Hotch Potch, Hungarian Goulash, Italian Spaghetti, Dutch Casserole, and (jarring though it always seems) Arabian (Pork) Chops. Elsewhere.....

Minneapolis, Minn: Buckeye Publishing Company, 1884. Thick octavo (21 x 16 cm.), 688, [2] pages. Index. Illustrated with in-text engravings throughout and frontispiece. Publisher’s advertisements. All edges red. Stated "Two hundredth thousand". The copyright page indicates that this "book is a revised and enlarged edition of Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping." In its origins a community cookbook, as well as a voluminous housekeeping reference, with a convoluted bibliographic history. The.....

New London, Conn. [Woman's Christian Temperance Union of New London, Conn.]; Morning Telegraph Print. 1894. Squarish book, stapled in cloth-backed stiff boards (19 x 17 cm.), [1-14], 61 pages. Advertisements. Separate indices for Advertisers, Authors, and Recipes. Evident FIRST EDITION. A dual purpose set of "rules" composed of unattributed recipes for breads, cakes, cookies, etc, candies and ice cream, dessert, eggs, miscellaneous helps, preserving and pickling, salads, soups and meats.....

Jericho, Vermont: Published by the Women's Christian Temperance Union of Vermont/Roscoe Printing House, [1895]. [Small octavo, 74 + 2 pages, with ads. First edition. The date and priority is indicated by Cook, who dates the first edition as 1895 (the second is 1906), and that this earlier printing was printed by the Roscoe Printing House in Jericho, VT, which this copy is. This small temperance cookbook contains recipes specifically thought.....