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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Reception Cocoa

3 tablespoons cocoa 1/4 cup sugar A few grains salt 4 cups milk 34 cup boiling water Scald milk. Mix cocoa, sugar, and salt, adding enough boiling water to make a smooth paste; add remaining water and boil five minutes; pour into scalded milk. Beat two minutes, using egg-beater.

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