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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Cucumber Soup

3 large cucumbers 1 slice onion 2 tablespoons butter 2 blades mace 3 tablespoons flour 3 cups White Stock III 1/2 cup cream Yolks 2 eggs 1 cup milk Salt and pepper Peel cucumbers, slice, and remove seeds. Cook in butter ten minutes; then add flour and stock. Scald milk with onion and mace. Combine mixtures and rub through a sieve. Reheat to boiling-point and add cream and egg yolks. Season with salt and pepper. ½ cup almonds 6 bitter almonds

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