Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice

I've been perusing a book Jan had planned to donate to a neighborhood library box.  With these clues, can you guess what book this might be?

1.  It is over 400 pages long.

2. Published in 1982, every page has been typed--on an actual typewriter. 

3. Here is one foot-note in the book: From the church bulletin, 1925: "None of our members, of course, should hold picnics, go to picture shows and ball games, and attend bathing parties on Sunday.  Our religion will be weak and ineffective and our influence will be exceedingly hurtful as long as we do those things." 

4. Another: From the church bulletin, 1925: "The pastor preaches this Sunday morning on Backsliding and Sunday night on The Need for a Revival.  You should hear these messages.  They will be delivered in plain English and he will doubtless call your number." 

5. All contributors to this book are women (though they are called ladies).  Not one of them uses her own first name (except sometimes in parentheses); she is Mrs. Leon Wallace, Mrs. Frank Simmons, Mrs. Mike Slaton.

Did you guess?

Entitled Yesterday, Today, and Forever 1882-1982, this book is a centennial cookbook assembled by the members of the First Baptist Church of Mineral Wells, Texas. 

In it, I'm finding recipes identical to the ones I grew up on and that were published in regional cookbooks all over the South.  Almost all vegetable dishes are cooked with Campbell's soupa and crushed crackers.  Maybe they have a bit of onion or celery, but all cooked in one dish and called casseroles. 

Most "salads" are congealed--with many variations on the theme: Jello; crushed fruit; Dream-Whip, or canned milk; chopped nuts; marshmallows.  I love these--but they are more dessert than salad. 

The largest section of these First Baptist (and all Baptist) cookbooks?  Can you guess?

Sweets!  Cakes, fruit cobblers, brownies, cookies, and pies. 

I can imagine why.  Early Baptists were not allowed to dance or play cards.  Ball games and picture shows were forbidden.  So what pleasures were left?  

Southern mamas were creative with all the possible pleasures inherent in  sugar.