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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Potage à la Reine

4 cups White Stock III 1½ teaspoon peppercorns 1 stalk celery 1 slice onion 1/2 tablespoon salt Yolks 3" hard-boiled" eggs 1/3 cup cracker crumbs Breast meat from a boiled chicken 2 cups scalded milk 1/2 cup cold milk 3 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour Cook stock with seasonings twenty minutes. Rub yolks of eggs through sieve. Soak cracker crumbs in cold milk until soft; add to eggs. Chop meat and rub through sieve; add to egg and cracker mixture. Then pour milk on slowly, and add to strained stock; boil three minutes. Bind with butter and flour cooked together.

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