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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Cream the butter, add lemon juice drop by drop, salt, pepper, and parsley. Cut bread in circular piece threeeighths inch thick, then toast. Put one-half of the sauce on the under side of toast; put toast on a small bakingdish, pile mushroom caps cleaned and pealed in conical shape on toast, and pour over cream. Cover with glass and bake about twenty-five minutes, adding more cream if necessary. Just before serving add one teaspoon Sherry wine.

Vegetable Soufflé 1/4 cup butter 1 cup cooked vegetables 1/4 cup flour rubbed through a sieve, - 1½ cup cream carrots, turnips, or onions 1/3 cup water in which vege- Yolks 3 eggs tables were cooked Whites 3 eggs Salt and pepper Melt butter, add flour, and pour on gradually cream and water; add vegetable, yolks of eggs beaten until thick and lemon colored, and fold in whites of eggs beaten until stiff, then add seasonings. Turn in a buttered baking-dish and bake in a slow oven.

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