The Home Favorite Cook Book. Published by the Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint

Greenpoint, N.Y.: Ladies' Benevolent Association of Greenpoint, 1887. Octavo (23 x 15 cm.), 75 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. FIRST EDITION. A charitable Brooklyn cookbook. "Money accruing from this sale of this is for the building of the Home for the Aged", states the title page. Recipes are not attributed, but there is an excellent two-page description of the "Work of the Association" with names of the officers of the society, and its goals. includes two tipped in recipes at the rear, Mushroom Soup, and Cheese Custard (which is labeled as a "West India Recipe" and there is a third recipe written on a blank, Baked Onions. A bit of foxing to a few pages, previous owner's name in pencil to a few pages, otherwise very good or better, in decorated, blue-gray cloth. Scarce. [OCLC locates four copies; not in Brown or Cook].