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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Lemon Pie II

2 tablespoons corn-starch 2 tablespoons flour 2 egg yolks 3 tablespoons lemon juice Grated rind 1 lemon 1 teaspoon butter Mix corn-starch, flour, and sugar, add boiling water, stirring constantly. Cook two minutes, add butter, egg yolks, and rind and juice of lemon. Line plate with paste same as for Custard Pie. Turn in mixture which has been cooled, and bake until pastry is well browned. Cool slightly, and cover with Meringue I; then return to oven and bake meringue. Yolks 4 eggs 6 tablespoons sugar Few grains salt

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