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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Newton Tapioca

5 tablespoons pearl tapioca 4 cups scalded milk 4 tablespoons Indian meal 1 cup milk 34 cup molasses 3 tablespoons butter 1½ teaspoons salt Soak tapioca two hours in cold water to cover. Pour scalded milk over Indian meal and cook in double boiler ten minutes. Add tapioca drained from water, molasses, butter and salt; turn into buttered pudding-dish, and pour over remaining milk, but do not stir. Bake one and onefourth hours in a moderate oven.

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