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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Shrimps à la Newburg

1 pint shrimps 3 tablespoons butter 1½ teaspoon salt Few grains cayenne 1 teaspoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon flour 1/2 cup cream Yolks 2 eggs 2 tablespoons Sherry wine Clean shrimps and cook three minutes in two tablespoons butter. Add salt, cayenne, and lemon juice, and cook one minute. Remove shrimps, and put remaining butter in chafing-dish, add flour and cream; when thickened , add yolks of eggs slightly beaten, shrimps, and wine.

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