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Posted on 04/03/2013 8:46:00 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
I can’t wait!
We have the last remnants of a box of See’s peanut brittle on the kitchen counter. That stuff is killer good!
I don’t know who they are.
Okay! :-)
Wow! I think that I’d rather sleep than the surprise that I get. lol
As kids our treat was Fanny Farmer Dixies. I loved them.
It is “killer good”!
See's has been around a long time. Really good stuff!
I have Fanny Farmer’s original cookbook. It’s still my favorite.
There used to be Fanny Farmer stores all over but they closed the stores. :-(
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Fanny Farmer started in 1919. She died in 1915. Some Canadian started the company.
Let me go look at my edition.
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.[1][2] 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. Farmer provided scientific explanations of the chemical processes that occur in food during cooking, and also helped to standardize the system of measurements used in cooking in the USA. Before the Cookbook's publication, other American recipes frequently called for amounts such as "a piece of butter the size of an egg" or "a teacup of milk." Farmer's systematic discussion of measurement — "A cupful is measured level ... A tablespoonful is measured level. A teaspoonful is measured level." — led to her being named "the mother of level measurements."
Farmer left the Boston Cooking School in 1902 and created Miss Farmer's School of Cookery.[3] She began by teaching gentlewomen and housewives the rudiments of plain and fancy cooking, but her interests eventually led her to develop a complete work of diet and nutrition for the ill, titled Food and Cookery for the Sick and Convalescent. Farmer was invited to lecture at Harvard Medical School and began teaching convalescent diet and nutrition to doctors and nurses. She felt so strongly about the significance of proper food for the sick that she believed she would be remembered chiefly by her work in that field, as opposed to her work in household and fancy cookery. Farmer understood perhaps better than anyone else at the time the value of appearance, taste, and presentation of sickroom food to ill and wasted people with poor appetites; she ranked these qualities over cost and nutritional value in importance.
Mine is different. It’s from the Boston School of Cooking. I am a graduate. :)
She certainly was a pioneer. Must be why the Canadian guy named his candy company after her, name recognition.
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