The Ladies National Cook Book. Presented by The Ladies Aid Society, East Raynham, Mass

[Raynham, Mass.]: [The Church], 1900. Stapled booklet, (18.75 x 13.5 cm.), 48 pages. Advertisements throughout. Title from cover. Identification of church surmised from photo-reproduction on cover. Date of publication proposed from internal evidence. FIRST & ONLY EDITION. Tentatively identified community recipe collection of modest proportions, with some two hundred brief entries solicited from acquaintances in both Bristol County and around the nation. Recipes include: Maryland Beat Biscuits (from Baltimore), Baked Brown Bread (from Ogden), Stuffed Potatoes (from Po'keepsie), Pineapple Pudding (from Seattle), Graham Pudding (from Philadelphia), Peach Cake (from Milwaukee), Nut Cake (from Missoula), and Nevada Cake (from Reno). The eastern end of Taunton, Bristol County, was settled and incorporated as Rayhham in 1731. The photograph on the cover of The Ladies National Cook Book corresponds, as far as its outlines are clear, to modern images of the First Baptist Church, though no confirmation whatsoever is provided by the text. The phrase East Raynham is anomalous. The date of publication is proposed from advertisements for horseless carriages and Quaker Ranges, but chiefly from citations to recently published cookbooks, such as François Tanty's La cuisine française (Chicago 1893) and Mrs. T. J. Kirkpatrick's The Modern Cook Book (Springfield 1890. Several recipes cite, in addition, Mrs. Rorer, Mrs. Lincoln, and Marion Harland, though without specificity with regard to titles. Some dampstaining to interior in the gutter, otherwise clean. Stapled booklet in slightly soiled cream-colored card-stock wrappers with black lettering, and an image of what appears to be the First Baptist Church of Raynham; three holes where a ribbon might be tied. Unrecorded. [OCLC reports no copies; in neither Cook, Brown, nor Cagle].