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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London Sherbet

1/3 cup seeded and finely cut raisins ¼ cup orange juice 3 tablespoons lemon juice 1 cup fruit syrup 14 grated nutmeg 1/4 cup port wine Whites 3 eggs Make syrup by boiling water and sugar ten minutes; pour over raisins, cool, and add fruit syrup and nutmeg; freeze to a mush, then add wine and whites of eggs beaten stiff, and continue freezing. Serve in glasses. Fruit syrup may be used which has been left from canned peaches, pears, or strawberries. 4 cups water 2 cups sugar

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