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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Pea Soup

2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt 1 can Marrowfat peas 1 slice onion 2 teaspoons sugar 1 pint cold water 1 pint milk 1/8 teaspoon pepper Drain peas from their liquor, add sugar and cold water, and simmer twenty minutes. Rub through a sieve, reheat, and thicken with butter and flour cooked together. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and add milk to pea mixture, season with salt and pepper. Peas too old to serve as a vegetable may be utilized for soups.

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