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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Soft Sugar Gingerbread

3 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoons ginger 2/3 cup thin cream Beat eggs until light, and add sugar gradually. Mix and sift dry ingredients, and add alternately with cream to first mixture. Turn into a buttered cake pan, and bake thirty minutes in a moderate oven. 1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar 1 egg

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