(Connecticut) Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Methodist Cook Book.

52 pp. Profusely illus. with ads for Bristol businesses. Gilt-stamped dec. blue wrappers. First Edition. Winsted: M.W. Dowd & Co., 1881.

Baked Indian pudding, roast beef, clam fritters, chocolate pie, piccalilli, spiced grapes, pickled butternuts, dandy cake, etc. Wrappers neatly detached (torn along spine), upper corners of front wrapper and first 32 pp. with bite, as if from a large rodent, taken out (not affecting text), thus fair, but with lovely printing and wonderful ads from Victorian-era Connecticut. Brown 261 lists 1882 edition.