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First Editions. Althouse, Mrs. John W, ed. A Miscellaneous Collection of Tried Recipes. A Miscellaneous Collection of Tried Recipes. 51 + [4] ad pp. Printed brown wrappers. (Recipes contributed by the members of the Women’s City Club of Philadelphia include minced oysters, stuffed egg plant, lady finger pudding, pickled cherries, coffee ice cream, etc. Small chip along edge of front wrapper, else very good). Philadelphia: Women’s City Club of Philadelphia, [c.1910’s]. Ladies of the Presbyterian Church. Cook Book of Useful Recipes. 108 pp. Black cloth. First Edition. (Fantastic 19th c. typography complements recipes for buckeye cake, Madison rolls, corn puffs, chicken and oysters, log cabin cakes, etc. Near fine; charming). Wrightsville, PA: W.W. Moore, 1883. Ladies of the First M.E. Church. Cook Book of Tested Recipes. 97, [1], + [1] index pp. Engraved ads throughout, and with 4-pp. ad for Clifton Springs Mfg.'s Mrs. Van Deusen Cake Mold tipped-in at front (as issued). Gilt-lettered pebbled brick cloth. (German cookies, Vermont brown bread, cold slaw, veal omelet, fried chicken, canned elderberries, apple pot-pie, etc. Expertly rebacked in matching cloth. A few manuscript recipes in pencil to flyleaves. Very good or better. Not in Brown). Erie, PA: Dispatch Printing Co., 1885. Ladies of Tidioute. The Housekeeper's Friend...Published for the Benefit of the Presbyterian Church. 176 pp. Ads for local businesses at front & rear. Brown cloth. (From its beginnings, Tidioute was connected to the cutlery industry, when groups of cutlery workers who had emigrated from Sheffield, England migrated from factories in New England to the vicinity of Tidioute and northern Pennsylvania to establish their own concerns.The town was the original home of the Tidioute Cutlery Company, a knife manufacturer founded in Tidioute in 1897. The company was later dissolved and reformed as the Union Cutlery Company. Union Cutlery relocated to Olean, New York, and the Tidioute factory ceased operations in 1911. Very good. Cook p.224). Tidioute, PA: News Stream Printing, 1889. Young Ladies Society of Christ Church, Towanda, Pa. Gems for the Kitchen: A Choice Collection of Recipes. 71 pp. Ribbon-bound flexible cloth. (With numerous period manuscript recipes for pickles & dandelion wine on rear pages. Darkening to covers, else very good). Towanda, PA: Reporter-Journal, 1892. Christian Endeavour Society of the Reformed Presbyterian Church. The Housekeeper's Favorite: Recipes for Home and Family Use. 175 + [1] ad pp. Gilt-lettered brown cloth. (Mushroom pickles, canvas-back ducks, green turtle soup, cold eggs for a picnic, blackberry jam cake, equator cake, etc. Very good). Tarentum, PA: Times Book & Job Print, 1894. Dorcas Society of the Presbyterian Church of Muncy, PA. The Muncy Cook Book. 60 + [9] ad pp. Cloth-backed printed stiff wrappers. (Strawberry water ice, Vassar fudge, corn pone, ragan pickle, Jersey peaches, etc. Dogearring to upper pages, else about very good). Williamsport, PA: Gazette & Bulletin, 1899.