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.

Suitable Combinations For Serving

14 recipes in this part of The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

Lady Fingers

TABLE LAID FOR FORMAL LUNCHEON. - Page 596. CENTREPIECE FOR LUNCHEON OR DINNER TABLE. - Page 598. CENTREPIECE FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER…

Sugared Beets

CHRISTMAS DINNER TABLE. - Page 600. TABLE LAID FOR RECEPTION. - Page 602.

First Course

Little Neck Clams or Bluepoints, with brown-bread sand. wiches. Sometimes canapés are used in place of either. For a gentleman's dinner…

Second Course (Clear soup with bread sticks)

Clear soup, with bread sticks, small rolls, or crisp crackers. Where two soups are served, one may be a cream soup. Cream soups are served…

Fourth Course

Fish, baked, boiled, or fried. Cole slaw, dressed cucumbers, or tomatoes accompany this course; with fried fish potatoes are often served.

Fifth Course

Roast saddle of venison or mutton, spring lamb, or fillet of beef; potatoes and one other vegetable.

Eighth Course

Punch or cheese course. Punch, when served, always precedes the game course.

Ninth Course

Game, with vegetable salad, usually lettuce or celery; or cheese sticks may be served with the salad, and game omitted.

Twelfth Course

Cracker, cheese, and café noir. Café noir is frequently served in the drawing and smoking rooms after the dinner. Where wines and liquors…

Menus for Full Course Dinners

After serving café noir in drawing-room, pass pony of brandy for men, sweet liqueur (Chartreuse, Benedictine, or Parfait d'Amour) for…

Glossary

Accolade de perdreaux. Brace of partridge. Agra dolce (sour sweet). An Italian sauce served with meat.

Blanquette

Bœuf à la jardinière. Braised beef with vegetables. Bombe glacée. Moulded ice cream and. ice, or two kinds of ice cream. Outside of one…

Announcement of Courses

THE aim of this School is to afford such instruction as will elevate cookery to its proper place as a science and an art. The courses are…

First Course (One lesson weekly for ten)

One lesson weekly, for ten consecutive weeks, from 9 A. M. to 12.30 P. M. Eight pupils constitute a class. Terms: $16.50, payable on fourth…

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