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The parish table and the cookbook test: suppers without a book

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Banked Churches & Religion and this history, re-read for the food record; catalogue test run

No cookbook of Lakeville's stands in any catalogue reached, and no smokehouse or ethnic-trades table stands in the town's record — the parish table here was the supper itself, eaten in the hall and not printed between covers. The catalogue test was run for a Lakeville, Indiana cookbook — church, club or community — and returned none at web-catalogue strength; the stronger settlers, a WorldCat and Indiana State Library catalogue read at first hand, were not reached and are named in this lane's accounting as the residue. What the record does carry is the supper calendar itself, dug whole in the companion article: turkey supper, fish fry, tenderloin fry, pancake breakfasts — a parish-and-club table documented in the clubs' newsletters, which is this town's food-institution record at its true size.

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Source: The parish table and the cookbook test: suppers without a book, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/lakeville/food/parish-table-and-the-cookbook-test-suppers-without-a/