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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Corn-starch Cake

1 cup butter 41½ teaspoons baking powder 2 cups sugar Whites 5 eggs 1 cup milk ¼ teaspoon vanilla or 1½ teaspoon almond extract 1 cup corn-starch 2 cups flour Follow recipe for mixing butter cakes. This mixture makes two loaves.

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