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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Table of Measures and Weights (Cups butter packed solidly)

2 cups butter (packed solidly) • = 1 pound 4 66 " 3½ “ flour (pastry) granulated sugar powdered confectioners' sugar brown sugar e = 1 66 = 1 " = " = 1 1 " = 1 " 434 23 47/3 1% 1 72 3% 473 2 oatmeal 66 66 66 66 66 66 66 rolled oats • granulated corn meal rye meal rice Graham flour entire wheat flour coffee finely chopped meat 9 large eggs • 1 square Baker's chocolate 0 0 1/3 cup almonds blanched and chopped = 1 " = 1 " = 1 1 " = 1 " = 1 1 " = 1 66 = • 1 1 " 1 " 1 " 0 A few grains is less than one-eighth teaspoon. 3 teaspoons 16 tablespoons • 2 tablespoons butter 4 tablespoons flour. • =1 = 1 1 pound = 1 ounce 1 66 = 1 tablespoon 1 cup = 1 ounce = 1 ounce

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