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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Flour (Teaspoons baking powder)

11/4 teaspoons baking powder 14 teaspoon salt Whites 4 eggs 1 teaspoon lemon extract Beat yolks of eggs and water until thick and lemoncolored, add sugar gradually, and beat two minutes. Put corn-starch in a cup and fill cup with flour. Mix and sift corn-starch and flour with baking powder and salt, and add to first mixture. When thoroughly mixed add whites of eggs beaten until stiff, and flavoring. Bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. This is an excellent mixture to use for whipped cream pies or to bake in an angel cake pan.

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