(Illinois - Community Cookbook) Woman's Society of the Winnetka Congregational Church. Good Recipes.

52, several lined blank pages, [9] ad pp. Pictorial red & green cloth. First Edition. Winnetka: Woman's Society of the Winnetka Congregational Church, [1906].

The Winnetka Congregational Church was found in 1874 by a group of just 22 residents; by 1906, it was in its third home, in a Norman-style stone structure on Lincoln Avenue. In 1901, a generation before women won their suffrage, they voted on a community issue in a church-held meeting, exercising the right to vote perhaps for the first time in American history. The Woman's Society held their first fundraiser, a rummage sale, the following year, netting $135. Still held annually, it recently brought in $200,000. Recipes are for local favorites like muskmelon pickle, wild crabapple jelly, frozen eggnog, etc. Discoloration from insect damage to covers, thus good only. Cook p.66.