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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Pickling (Again let stand three days)

again let stand three days; repeat. Drain, wipe cucumbers. and pour over one gallon boiling water in which one tablespoon alum has been dissolved. Let stand six hours, then drain from alum water. Cook cucumbers ten minutes, a few at a time, in one-fourth the following mixture heated to the boiling-point and boiled ten minutes: - 1 gallon vinegar 2 sticks cinnamon 4 red peppers 2 tablespoons allspice berries 2 tablespoons cloves Strain remaining liquor over pickles which have been put in a stone jar.

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