(St. Louis - Temperance) Ladies of the Pilgrim Church. The Pilgrim Housekeeper: A Collection of Tried Recipes. Ed. By Mrs. D.D. Fisher, Mrs. H. Brinsmade, and Mrs. C.W.S. Cobb

298 pp. Frontis. wood engraving of the Pilgrim Church, and illus. with ads for local businesses as well. Green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. First Edition. St. Louis: H.P. Studley, 1886.

Published for the benefit of the Ladies’ Home Missionary Society. Mrs. C.L. Goodell declares in her preface, “It is a temperance book; that is another great merit in these days when many good people are not sufficiently careful to bring up their children with right habits. Some here may learn how delicious dishes may be made without the use of liquors.” Some recipes, both in manuscript and from newspaper clippings, mounted to blank pages intended for such. Particularly strong are the additions to the preserves section. Fading to cloth, subbing to spine head, short tear to cloth along rear hinge, a bit of dampstaining to outer margins of pages, else good.