Try a Soup Recipe from a Classic Cookbook
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For this meetup let's try out soup recipes from any edition of the Classic Fannie Farmer cookbook - originally published as the Boston Cooking-School Cookbook.
Pick one of the soup recipes from any edition of Fannie's cookbook, make it and bring samples to our meetup for all to try.
Please bring a small ladle or serving spoon and let us know ahead of time what you plan to cook.
I will provide small bowls for sampling, spoons, bread and butter.
Our host location, Global Brew, will let us bring food in, but no outside drinks! Please support the brewery by purchasing your beverages from them.
Hope to see you there.
Here's a little back story on Fannie - in case you are interested
Fannie was born in 1857 in Boston to a family who believed in education for women. They planned on sending her to college, but a stroke at the age of 16 left her paralyzed and forced her to stay at home with her parents instead. To help support them, Fannie took up cooking and housekeeping. Eventually she was able to walk again though she still had a limp. She enrolled in the Boston Cooking School at the age of 30. Two years after graduation she became director of the school.
In 1896, Fannie approached the publisher Little, Brown & Company with her new cookbook. It was the first of it’s kind to list ingredients and instructions separately and to include standard measurements. It defined how we write recipes today. Prior to her cookbook, recipes were written in paragraph form with vague and incomplete instructions.
The publishers, afraid of losing money on this strange cookbook, required Fannie to pay for the first printing herself. Because of this - she kept ownership of the copyright and became a wealthy woman.
The first edition of 3000 quickly sold out; it was reprinted twice in 1897 and once a year thereafter until 1906, when a revised edition was issued. New and revised editions, in multiple reprints, continue to be published.
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An in-person meetup where home cooks prepare soups from Fannie Farmer’s Classic/Boston Cooking-School Cookbook and bring samples to share.
AI summary
By Meetup
An in-person meetup where home cooks prepare soups from Fannie Farmer’s Classic/Boston Cooking-School Cookbook and bring samples to share.
