The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

The book that taught America to measure. Fannie Farmer's 1896 classic replaced the pinch, the lump and the teacup of the old receipts with the level cup and the level spoon — and then filled eight hundred pages with what to do next.

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Baked Pears

Wipe, quarter, and core pears. Put in a deep puddingdish, sprinkle with sugar or add a small quantity of molas- , sprinkle with sugar or add a small quantity of molasses, then add water to prevent pears from burning. Cover, and cook two or three hours in a very slow oven. pears may be baked whole. Seckel pears are delicious when baked.

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