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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Spring Soup

1 quart White Stock I or II 1 large onion thinly sliced 3 tablespoons butter 1/2 cup stale baker's bread 1 cup milk 1 cup cream 2 tablespoons flour Salt and pepper Cook onion fifteen minutes in one tablespoon butter; add to stock, with bread broken in pieces. Simmer one hour; rub through sieve. Add milk, and bind with remaining butter and flour cooked together; add cream, and season.

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