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Title: 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt Farmer ISBN: 0-517-18678-0 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 16 September, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nana to Mom to Daughter to Daughter and now to Grands.
Comment: My original copy of Fanny Farmer's Cookbook has no cover, pages behave as falling leaves unless handled with care, but I would not give it up for a new one, never never. What would I do without my years of scribbled notes in the margins? The copies I am buying now are for two granddaughters who are college frosh this year. They will get Fanny, Miss Manners, New College dictionary, etc. to start their own home libraries. Every home need Fanny Farmer because it is basic, easy to read and understand and calls for ingredients readily available - if not on the home shelf then at any grocery. FYI, when the grandson goes off to college he will also get a copy of Fanny to take with him, along with his microwave and a covered frying pan.
Rating: 5
Summary: A must for every aspiring cook.
Comment: This book was the first I ever had. My mother bought it for me when I got married. It was a mainstay in our kitchen at home. It teaches all aspects of basic sauces, breads, pastries, meats, poultry, vegetables and soups. It contains hints on substitutions, on how to diagnose a failed cake, on how to create a bouquet garni. It will never go out of date. Surely our eating habits have changed somewhat. We eat more veggies, less meat, but the dessert cart at the restaurant looks as luscious as ever, and we can find all of it or reasonable facsimile in this Classic.
Rating: 4
Summary: A tasty way to digest history
Comment: This treasure trove of butter drenched, fried, preserved and heavily sweetened recipes is loaded with practical homemaking advice from the days when "fresh" was only seasonally available per market, and cholesterol was not a vocabulary word. It makes you think about how people "lived to eat" in the Northeastern US at the turn of the century before foreign travel, immigration, mass media, refrigeration, food processors, mixers, nutrition research, etc. made exotic cuisines and "fresh and light" everyday fare.
The recipes are classic, yet loaded with good and creative cooking ideas that might have been overlooked in the 20th century...nutmeg in poultry dressing, etc. They are invitations to create meals that make you think about how economic and scientific considerations influenced how people ate. For example, you'll find more varieties of angel cakes; when you consider that sugar was more expensive than butter and therefore more of a treat, it's not surprising. Canning and preserving, and making out of season foods taste good, were necessary skills of any good housekeeper. Physical labor was a daily necessity, meaning bigger, heartier meals.
This cookbook is as interesting to read as it is a source of good old fashioned American recipes. Adjust them to 1990's dietary considerations, and you've got an enduring classic you can use every day.
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Title: The Fannie Farmer Cookbook : Anniversary by Marion Cunningham, Fannie Farmer Cookbook Corporation, Archibald Candy Corporation, Lauren Jarrett ISBN: 0679450815 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 09 September, 1996 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Fannie Farmer Baking Book by Marion Cunningham ISBN: 0517148293 Publisher: Gramercy Pub. Date: 16 March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Original 1896 Boston Cooking-School Cook Book by Fannie Merritt Farmer ISBN: 0486296970 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 14 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes With a Casual Culinary Chat by Irma S. Rombauer, Irma Von Starkloff Rombauer ISBN: 0684833581 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 29 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Lost Recipes : Meals to Share with Friends and Family by Marion Cunningham ISBN: 0375411984 Publisher: Knopf Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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