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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Cocoanut Cream Candy

1½ cups sugar 1/2 cup milk 2 teaspoons butter 1/3 cup shredded cocoanut ½ teaspoon vanilla Put butter into granite saucepan; when melted, add sugar and milk, and stir until sugar is dissolved. Heat to boilingpoint, and boil twelve minutes; remove from fire, add cocoanut and vanilla, and beat until creamy and mixture begins to sugar slightly around edge of saucepan. Pour at once into a buttered pan, cool slightly, and mark in squares. One-half cup nut meat, broken in pieces, may be used in place of cocoanut. 2 cups sugar 2/3 cup milk

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