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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First Course

Little Neck Clams or Bluepoints, with brown-bread sand. wiches. Sometimes canapés are used in place of either. For a gentleman's dinner, canapés accompanied with Sherry wine are frequently served before guests enter the dining-room.

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First Course

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