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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Hard Sugar Gingerbread

5 cups flour 34 tablespoon baking powder 1½ teaspoons salt 34 tablespoon ginger Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, milk, and dry ingredients mixed and siftéd. Put some of mixture on an inverted dripping-pan and roll as thinly as possible to cover pan. Mark dough with a coarse grater. Sprinkle with sugar and bake in a moderate oven. Before removing from pan, cut in strips four and one-half inches long by one and one-half inches wide.

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