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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Macaroon Cream

14 box gelatine or 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine 1/4 cup cold water 2 cups scalded milk Yolks 3 eggs 1/3 cup sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt ½ cup pounded macaroons 1 teaspoon vanilla Whites 3 eggs Soak gelatine in cold water. Make custard of milk, yolks of eggs, sugar, and salt; add gelatine, and strain into pan set in ice-water. Add macaroons and flavoring, stirring until it begins to thicken; then add whites of eggs beaten stiff, mould, chill, and serve garnished with macaroons.

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