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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Birthday Cake

114 cups brown sugar Yolks 2 eggs 2/3 cup milk 21/4 cups flour 31½ teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon orange extract 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 tablespoons Sherry 1/2 cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1/2 cup walnut meats, cut in pieces 1/3 cup currants 2 tablespoons candied Whites 2 eggs orange peel, finely cut Follow directions for making butter-cake mixtures. Bake in a buttered and floured angel-cake pan in a slow oven one and one-quarter hours. Cover with Ornamental Frosting (see p. 532). 1 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs

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