Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Contributed by Many Good Cooks. [Compiled by] Miss A. Alden and Miss A. Adams. Second edition, issued December, 1895

Springfield, Mass: Cyrus W. Atwood, Printer, 1895. Octavo (23.5 x 15 cm.), 80 pages. Advertisements. Cover title: The A. A. Cook Book, Containing Three Hundred Tested Recipes. Publisher's name and date of publication from cover. Index is actually a table of contents. ~ Stated Second Edition. Not a charitable cookbook (though included in Cook), but rather a functionally anonymous compilation of unattributed recipes, numbered 1-350. A survey eminently of its time: croquettes, meat pies, biscuits, griddle cakes, pickles, cookies, and confections, though one might wish to pause over the Apple Shortcake, Huckleberry Puffs, or Snickerdoodles. Of some interest as an example of the local New England print trade: Cyrus W. Atwood (1825-1919), the printer contracted by Miss Alden and Miss Adams, was said to have been known by colleagues and competitors as Prompt Atwood, owing to his reliability. Affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church, he appears to have specialized in bible-study and other religious publications. The first edition was published in 1893, and credited to "arranged and recommended by the ladies of the Lend-a-Hand Society of Memorial Church, Springfield, Mass." ~ Text block darkening and with some minimal edgewear ; page fore-edges and several initial pages damp-stained. In stapled, paper wrappers, soiled, chipped, and creased; brittle and partially detached at the spine. Good only. Scarce. [OCLC locates four copies; Bitting, page 6; Cook, page 114, notes also a (first?) edition printed in 1895, but titled Many Good Cooks; not in Brown or Cagle].