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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Kumquat Jelly

1½ cups kumquat juice 1½ cup sugar 14 cup Sauterne 1½ tablespoons Orange Curaçoa 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine 2 tablespoons cold water Few grains salt Wipe three-fourths box kumquats, cut in slices, add cold water to cover, bring slowly to boiling-point, and cook slowly one-half hour; then strain; there should be one and onehalf cups juice. Add sugar, wine, and curaçoa. Soak gelatine in cold water, and add to first mixture heated to boilingpoint; then add salt. Strain, turn into individual mould, and chill. Remove to serving dish, and garnish with halves of kumquats, cooked in syrup until soft, drained, and rolled in sugar.

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