Cook Book of Millers Falls P.T.A. Compiled by [the] Chairman, Mrs. Alma Cuff

Millers Falls, Mass, 1946. Octavo (23 x 15.5 cm.), 38 pages. Cover title: Cook Book: Highland P.T.A. 1946. FIRST EDITION. A community cookbook, then, its one hundred thirty attributed recipes known to but a few dozen families. Alma M. (Lapointe) Cuff (1920-2009) was a newcomer, recently arrived from distant Greenfield (about seven miles away) after her marriage to a metal worker and settling to raise a family in Millers Falls. Two intriguing aspects of the Cook Book she oversaw are the number of recipes identified as "sugarless"--among them Gingerbread, Cream Pudding, Devil's Food Cake, and Alma Cuff's own Fudge, and a few experimental ventures, such as New Way to Prepare Stringbeans and - a Committee project - Pineapple Chicken Sandwich. Once a mill village amidst the farming communities of Franklin County in northwestern Massachusetts, Millers Falls took its name in the 1860s from Millers Falls Manufacturing, makers of fine tools, founded in Greenfield but with factories in Millers Falls. The village is now a constituent neighborhood of Montague. Children of several generations past attended the Highland School, a one-story, six-room brick schoolhouse on Millers Falls Road, built circa 1920. In stapled, blue-titled wrapper. Lower front corner of wrapper chipped, otherwise very good. [OCLC locates one copy; in neither Brown nor Cagle].