The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt Farmer, from the first edition of 1896.
And this book is arguably the best known and most influential of all America.
Fannie Farmer, the author of this book, is perhaps the best known of the great American culinary authorities of the turn of the 19th to 20th centuries.
A pioneering work in the culinary field, it was the first cookbook to provide level measurements and easy-to-follow directions.
A perennial bestseller first published in 1896.
The Boston Cooking-School Cookbook by Fannie Merritt Farmer, from the first edition of 1896