Fannie Farmer Cookbook, 9th Edition, 1951 - Vintage Classic American Cookbook | Classic Fannie Farmer | Bixley Shop
The all-time classic Fannie Farmer cookbook, "America's Basic Cookbook" has been the go-to resource for home cooks since 1896. This is the 9th revised and updated edition published in 1951. It presents 878 pages of traditional American cooking, recipes, and techniques from the Boston Cooking School.
ABOUT FANNIE FARMER (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
At the age of 30, Farmer enrolled in the Boston Cooking School training at the school until 1889 during the height of the domestic science movement, learning what were then considered the most critical elements of the science, including nutrition and diet for the well, convalescent cookery, techniques of cleaning and sanitation, chemical analysis of food, techniques of cooking and baking, and household management. Farmer was considered one of the school's top students. She was then kept on as assistant to the director. In 1891, she took the position of school principal. Fannie published her best-known work, The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book, in 1896. Her cookbook introduced the concept of using standardized measuring spoons and cups, as well as level measurement. A follow-up to an earlier version called Mrs. Lincoln's Boston Cook Book, published by Mary J. Lincoln in 1884, the book under Farmer's direction eventually contained 1,850 recipes, from milk toast to Zigaras à la Russe. Farmer also included essays on housekeeping, cleaning, canning and drying fruits and vegetables, and nutritional information. The book's publisher (Little, Brown & Company) did not predict good sales and limited the first edition to 3,000 copies, published at the author's expense. The book was so popular in America, so thorough, and so comprehensive that cooks would refer to later editions simply as the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, and it is still available in print over 100 years later.
BIXLEY NOTES
• The New Fannie Farmer Cookbook
• Revised by Wilma Lord Perkins
• Illustrated by Barbara Corrigan
• 878 page linen hardcover cookbook
• Published by Little, Brown & Company, 1951, 9th Edition
• Book measures 8 1/2" x 5 5/8"
VINTAGE NOTES
• In very good condition
• The dust jacket is missing
• The binding is nice and tight
• Covers show a little shelf wear and a few spots
• The pages are in great condition
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