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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Quick Cake

1/3 cup soft butter 1½ cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup milk 3 teaspoons baking powder 1½ teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1/2 lb. dates, stoned and cut in pieces Put ingredients in a bowl and beat all together for three minutes, using a wooden cake spoon. Bake in a buttered and floured cake pan thirty-five to forty minutes. If directions are followed this makes a most satisfactory cake; but if ingredients are added separately it will not prove a success. 2/3 cup butter 2 cups sugar 4 eggs

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