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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Rice and Tomato Croquettes

1/2 cup rice 3/4 cup stock 1/2 can tomatoes 1 slice onion 1 slice carrot 1 sprig parsley 1 sprig thyme 2 cloves 14 teaspoon peppercorns 1 teaspoon sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup grated cheese 1 tablespoon butter 1/2 teaspoon salt Few grains cayenne Wash rice, and steam in stock until rice has absorbed stock; then add tomatoes which have been cooked twenty minutes with onion, carrot, parsley, thyme, cloves, peppercorns, and sugar, and then rubbed through a strainer. Remove from fire, add egg slightly beaten, cheese, butter, salt, and cayenne. Spread on a plate to cool. Shape in form of cylinders, dip in crumbs, egg, and crumbs again, fry in deep fat, and drain.

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