Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book [Paperback]

Fannie Merritt Farmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 17, 2012

A cookbook classic, acclaimed for such innovations as simple directions, concern with nutrition and terms now standard in American cooking. Detailed methods for preparing soups, seafood, meat, vegetables, poultry, salads, hot and cold desserts, and many other dishes. A delightful repository of information for nostalgia buffs and a useful aid for today's homemaker.

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Dover Publications (July 17, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486296970
• ISBN-13: 978-0486296975
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 1.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,925 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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27 of 36 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars A reprint of a classic cook book that was plegarized. June 17, 1999

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Format:Paperback

Although we have grown up believing that Fannie Farmer was the pioneer of standardized measurements, her classic "Original" Boston Cooking-School Cook book was in fact a re-editing of the "Boston Cooking School Cook Book" by Mary Lincoln. Mary Lincoln founded the Boston Cooking School and later hired Fannie Farmer to be its principal. Those interested in the history of cook books and recipies should get both of these reprints to compare. Either one are great to get a window on how it was done in days of wood stoves and early ideas of nutrition.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars The real Fannie Farmer was fascinating June 30, 2001

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I've always loved Fannie Farmer's straightforward instructions. Recently I found a children's book, FANNIE IN THE KITCHEN, that tells how Fannie Merritt Farmer may have gotten started in cooking as a mother's helper. I never realized Farmer suffered from polio or a stroke as a teenager, which made her "unmarriageble" in those days. It's fascinating to look back at how roles for women opened up during and after the Civil War, and Fannie is no exception.