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.

The Book

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

Cookery Means the Knowledge of Medea

Cookery means the knowledge of Medea and of Circe and of Helen and of the Queen of Sheba. It means the knowledge of all herbs and fruits…

Preface

"BUT for life the universe were nothing; and all that has life requires nourishment."

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