Choice Recipes. [Compiled by members of the] Walpole Mother's Club. [cover title]

Walpole, Massachusetts: [The Club], 1938. Octavo (20.5 x 13.25 cm.), 94, [xiv] pages. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook from Walpole, Massachusetts, in east-central Norfolk County, of five hundred attributed recipes with their ingredients listed prior to instructions. There is an emphasis on luncheon and buffet dishes. Warranting a second look: Peanut Butter Bread, Chicken and Asparagus Loaf, Swedish Cabbage Rolls, Rice Omelette, Pineapple and Cabbage Salad, Cocoanut Tapioca Pudding, Hoosier Apple Pie, Gingerbread Waffles, Pineapple Meringue Cake, and Copley Plaza Pickles. As of this writing the group and its motivation have escaped history's notice. Certainly no church is front-and-center, and several contributors can be identified as elementary or secondary schoolteachers; but the temptation to link the Walpole Mother's Club to a school or social center must remain only that – a temptation. One recipe corrected in pencil. Terra cotta-colored card stock covers in "Wire-O Binding" from Thomas Groom & Co.; laminate with black lettering beginning to peel; edges worn and corners bumped. Good only. Unrecorded. [OCLC reports no copies; not in Brown or Cagle].