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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Tomato Soup

1 quart tomatoes, raw or canned 1 pint water 12 peppercorns Bit of bay leaf 4 cloves 2 teaspoons sugar 1 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon soda 2 tablespoons butter 3 tablespoons flour 1 slice onion Cook tomatoes, water, seasonings, and sugar twenty minutes; strain, and add salt and soda. Brown butter and flour cooked together; bind, and strain into tureen.

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