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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French Fruit Pudding

1 cup finely chopped suet 1 cup molasses 1 cup sour milk 1½ teaspoons soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon clove 1½ teaspoon salt 234 cups flour 114 cups raisins, seeded and chopped 3/4 cup currants Mrs. Carrie M. Dearborn Add molasses and sour milk to suet; add two cups flour mixed and sifted with soda, salt, and spices; add fruit mixed with remaining flour. Turn into buttered mould, cover, and steam four hours. Serve with Sterling Sauce. 3 oz. beef suet Fig Pudding I ½ lb. figs, finely chopped 21½ cups stale bread crumbs 34 teaspoon salt 1½ cup milk 2 eggs 1 cup sugar Chop suet, and work with the hands until creamy, then add figs. Soak bread crumbs in milk, add eggs well beaten, sugar, and salt. Combine mixtures, turn into a buttered mould, steam three hours. Serve with Yellow Sauce I or II. 14 lb. suet ½ lb. figs (finely chopped)

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