(New York) Ladies of the Parish Aid Society. A Cook Book of Tested Recipes

192 pp. Replete with ads for Brooklyn businesses in rear. 9.25x4", white cloth lettered in black. First Edition. Brooklyn: St. Johns Church, [1914].

Founded in 1826, St. John's is the second oldest Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. In 1914, they issued a community cookbook containing recipes from congregants, each of whom is named after their recipe, including clam chowder, peach pudding, devilled lobster in the shell, "sticky" tomatoes, oysters a la Waldorf, etc. This book was well-loved, with additional notes and recipes written in margins. Soiling and spots to covers; front free endpaper lacking, occasional internal splotches from cooking or closed tears to a page here and there, else good.