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 Queens

34 tablespoon lemon juice Yolks 4 eggs 5 ozs. flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon soda (scant) Whites 4 eggs Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, and continue beating. Then add grated rind, lemon juice, and yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon-colored. Mix and sift soda, salt, and flour; add to first mixture and beat thoroughly. Add whites of eggs beaten stiff. Bake from twenty to twenty-five minutes in small tins. 2/3 cup butter 2 cups flour (scant) 14 teaspoon soda

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