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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Spanish Cream

14 box gelatine or 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine 3 cups milk Whites 3 eggs Yolk 3 eggs 1½ cup sugar (scant) 14 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon vanilla or 3 tablespoons wine Scald milk with gelatine, add sugar, pour slowly on yolks of eggs slightly beaten. Return to double boiler and cook until thickened, stirring constantly; remove from range, add salt, flavoring, and whites of eggs beaten stiff. Turn into individual moulds, first dipped in cold water, and chill; serve with cream. More gelatine will be required if large moulds are used.

Coffee Soufflê 1½ cups coffee infusion 14 teaspoon salt 1½ cup milk 3 eggs 2/3 cup sugar 1½ teaspoon vanilla 1 tablespoon granulated gelatine Mix coffee infusion, milk, one-half of the sugar and gelatine, and heat in double boiler. Add remaining sugar, salt, and yolks of eggs slightly beaten; cook until mixture thickens, remove from range, add whites of eggs beaten until stiff and vanilla. Mould, chill, and serve with cream.

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