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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Card Gingerbread

134 cups flour 1½ tablespoon ginger 34 teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoon soda 14 teaspoon cinnamon Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, egg well beaten, molasses, and flour mixed and sifted with ginger, salt, soda, and cinnamon. Chill, roll in sheets to one-fourth inch in thickness, bake on a buttered sheet, and cut in squares. 14 cup butter 1/4 cup lard 1/4 cup boiling water 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/2 cup molasses 1 teaspoon soda

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