Food History

The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book

by Fannie Merritt Farmer

Fannie Farmer ran the Boston Cooking School, and her book of 1896 asked for level measurements: a cupful meant a cup levelled off with a knife. It made the measuring cup and spoon the American way to cook. Her publisher doubted it would sell, so she paid for the first printing herself.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 11 hr 40 min

Where to find it

On the Food History shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #65061. In the public domain in the United States.