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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Banana Cantaloupe

2 tablespoons granulated gelatine ½ cup cold water Whites 2 eggs 1/4 cup powdered sugar 34 cup scalded cream 2/3 cup sugar 4 bananas, mashed pulp 1 tablespoon lemon juice Whip from 3½ cups cream 12 lady fingers Soak gelatine in cold water, beat whites of eggs slightly, add powdered sugar, and gradually hot cream, cook over hot water until it thickens; add soaked gelatine and remaining sugar, strain into a pan set in ice-water, add bananas and lemon juice, stir until it begins to thicken, then fold in • whip from cream. Line a melon mould with lady fingers trimmed to just fit sections of mould, turn in the mixture, spread evenly, and chill. 14 box gelatine or

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