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 Pound Cake

34 teaspoon soda 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1½ teaspoon allspice 14 teaspoon clove 14 teaspoon mace 1½ cup raisins, seeded and cut in pieces 1/3 cup citron, thinly sliced and cut in strips Cream the butter, add sugar gradually, eggs well beaten, and milk and molasses. Mix and sift flour with soda and spices, and add to first mixture, then add fruit. Bake in small buttered tins from twenty-five to thirty minutes in a moderate oven.

This recipe makes twenty-four little cakes. 1 lb. butter 1 lb. light brown sugar 9 eggs 1 lb. flour 2 teaspoons mace 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon soda

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