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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Molasses Cookies

1 cup molasses 1 tablespoon ginger 1½ cup shortening, butter 1 tablespoon soda and lard mixed 2 tablespoons warm milk 2½ cups bread flour 1 teaspoon salt Heat molasses to boiling-point, add shortening, ginger, soda dissolved in warm milk, salt, and flour. Proceed as for Ginger Snaps.

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