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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Stock III

22 tablespoons butter 2½ tablespoons flour Soak bread crumbs in milk, add yolks of eggs rubbed through a sieve and chicken meat also rubbed through a sieve. Add gradually milk, and chicken stock highly seasoned. Bind with butter and flour cooked together, and season with salt and pepper.

St. Germain Soup 3 cups White Stock I, II, or III 1 can Marrowfat peas 1 cup cold water 1½ onion Bit of bay leaf Sprig of parsley 1 cup milk Blade of mace 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1½ teaspoon pepper 2 tablespoons butter 2 tablespoons cornstarch Drain and rinse peas, reserving one-third cup; put remainder in cold water with seasonings, and simmer one-half hour; rub through sieve and add stock. Bind with butter and cornstarch cooked together; boil five minutes. Add milk and reserved peas. 4 cups White Stock III

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