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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Devilled Oysters

1½ tablespoon finely chopped parsley 1½ teaspoon salt Few grains cayenne Yolk 1 egg 1 teaspoon lemon juice Buttered cracker crumbs Clean, drain, and slightly chop oysters. Make a sauce of butter, flour, and milk; add egg yolk, seasonings, and oysters. Arrange buttered scallop shells in a dripping-pan, half fill with mixture, cover with buttered crumbs, and bake twelve to fifteen minutes in a hot oven. Deep oyster shells may be used in place of scallop shells. 2 tablespoons butter Crab meat, Indienne 2 tablespoon curry powder 1 cup chicken stock 1 cup crab meat

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