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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Fruit Punch II

1 cup water 2 cups strawberry syrup 2 cups sugar 1 cup tea infusion 1 quart Apollinaris Juice 5 lemons Juice 5 oranges 1 can grated pineapple 1 cup Maraschino cherries Make syrup by boiling water and sugar ten minutes; add tea, strawberry syrup, lemon juice, orange juice, and pineapple; let stand thirty minutes, strain, and add ice-water to make one and one-half gallons of liquid. Add cherries and Apollinaris. Serve in punch-bowl, with large piece of ice. This quantity will serve fifty.

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