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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Vanilla Wafers

equal proportions 1/3 cup butter and lard in 1 cup sugar 1 egg 1/4 cup milk 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1½ teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons vanilla Cream the butter, add sugar, egg well beaten, milk, and vanilla. Mix and sift dry ingredients and add to first mixture. Proceed as with Ginger Snaps. 1/3 cup butter 1 cup sugar 2 eggs 1/2 cup thin cream

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