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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German Coffee Bread

½ cup butter, or butter and lard 14 cup sugar ½ teaspoon salt 1 egg 1½ yeast cake dissolved in 14 cup lukewarm milk 1/2 cup raisins stoned and cut in pieces Add butter, sugar, and salt to milk; when lukewarm, add dissolved yeast cake, egg well beaten, flour to make stiff batter, and raisins; cover, and let rise over night; in morning spread in buttered dripping-pan one-half inch thick. Cover and let rise again. Before baking, brush over with beaten egg, and cover with following mixture: Melt three tablespoons butter, add one-third cup sugar and one teaspoon cinnamon. When sugar is partially melted, add three tablespoons flour. 1 cup scalded milk 4 yolks of eggs 3 eggs 2/3 cup butter Coffee Cakes (Brioche) 1½ cup sugar 2 yeast cakes 1½ teaspoon extract lemon or 2 pounded cardamon seeds 42½ cups flour

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