The Standard Family Cook-Book; A volume of valuable cooking receipts, carefully compiled from reliable sources, and published by Ladies of the Spencer Baptist Society for the benefit of their building fund

Spencer [Mass.]: Book and Job Office of the Spencer Sun, 1885. Duodecimo (17.5 x 12 cm.), xii, 110 pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, containing a collection of narrative format recipes arranged in twenty-one chapters, including Boiling, Roasting, Pickles, and House Plants. Spencer, Massachusetts was settled in 1717 and officially incorporated in 1753. In rubbed and lightly soiled brown wrappers. Some slight foxing and water stains to edges, otherwise good. Some annotations to recipes throughout the text and one manuscript recipe to rear paste-down. [OCLC locates two copies, (Schlesinger and Clements); not in Brown; Cook, page 109].