TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Emma Bland
AU  - Reagan,Susan
TI  - The fabulous Fannie Farmer: kitchen scientist and America's cook 
SN  - 9781635926125
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
KW  - Farmer, Fannie Merritt,
KW  - Miss Farmer's School of Cookery
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Women cooks
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Cooks
KW  - Cooking, American
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Picture books
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - "Bonus! 2 recipes inside!"--Cover; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "When Fannie Farmer learned to cook in the late 1800s, recipes could be pretty silly. They might call for "a goodly amount of salt" or "a lump of butter" or "a suspicion of nutmeg." Girls were supposed to use their "feminine instincts" in the kitchen (or maybe just guess). Despite this problem, Fannie loved cooking, so when polio prevented her from going to college, she became a teacher at the Boston Cooking School. Unlike her mother or earlier cookbook writers, Fannie didn't believe in feminine instincts. To her, cooking was a science. She'd noticed that precise measurements and specific instructions ensured that cakes rose instead of flopped and doughnuts fried instead of burned. Students liked Fannie's approach so much that she wrote a cookbook. Despite skepticism from publishers, Fannie's book was a recipe for success"--Provided by publisher
ER  -