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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Hermits

½ cup raisins, stoned and cut in small pieces 1/3 cup butter 2/3 cup sugar 1 egg 1½ teaspoon cinnamon 2 tablespoons milk 14 teaspoon clove 134 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon mace 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, then raisins, egg well beaten, and milk. add to first mixture.

Vanilla Wafers.

Mix and sift dry ingredients and Roll mixture a little thicker than for 1/2 cup butter 1/3 cup sugar 1 egg well beaten

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