The 1900s Cooking Standards and Fannie Farmer's Influence

In the 1900s, Fannie Farmer opened Miss Farmer's School of Cookery. It was aimed at training the 1900s housewife.

She had already produced the Fannie Farmer Cookbook with the recipe for Fannie Farmer's famous brownies dating back to about the time when brownie recipes were first introduced. Some of the other favorite Fannie Farmer recipes are Banana Bread, Apple Pie and her Cream of Tomato Soup.

Fannie Farmer, (23 March 1857 - 15 January 1915) unable to continue her formal education due to health problems at the time, became interested in cooking and later enrolled in the Boston Cooking School. This was at the time in the mid 19th century when domestic science and stressing nutrition was first being discussed and the study of home economics was being developed. She graduated from the Boston Cooking School in 1889 and became the assistant director and later the director of the school. In her cookbook, she stressed proper nutrition for health. The original Fannie Farmer Cook Book is still widely used today. In 1902, Fannie Farmer left the Boston Cooking School to open Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, aimed not at professional cooks but at training housewives. She was a frequent lecturer on domestic topics, and wrote several more cooking-related books before she died in Boston in 1915. The school continued until 1944.

I certainly feel that the time is not far distant when a knowledge of the principles of diet will be an essential part of one's education. Then mankind will eat to live, be able to do better mental and physical work and disease will be less frequent.
Fannie Farmer