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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Chocolate Mousse

2 squares unsweetened chocolate 1½ cup powdered sugar 1 cup cream 3 tablespoons boiling water 3/4 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 34 tablespoon granulated gelatine 1 quart cream Melt chocolate, add powdered sugar, and gradually one cup cream. Stir over fire until boiling-point is reached, then add gelatine dissolved in boiling water, sugar, and vanilla. Strain mixture into a bowl, set in a pan of ice-water, stir constantly until mixture thickens, then fold in the whip from remaining cream. Mould, pack in salt and ice, and let stand four hours. 4 eggs

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