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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Squash Soup

¼ cup cooked squash 1 quart milk 1 slice onion 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1 teaspoon salt Few grains pepper 14 teaspoon celery salt Rub squash through a sieve before measuring. Scald milk with onion, remove onion, and add milk to squash; season, and bind.

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