Original: Around the same time the American cook Fannie Farmer ( Fannie Merritt Farmer 1857 -- 1915 ) was born and having devoted herself to cooking published in 1896 her famous work ` The Boston Cooking School Cookbook ' which contained some 1849 recipes .
Simplified: Around that same time the American cook Fannie Farmer ( Fannie Merritt Farmer 1857 -- 1915 ) devoted herself to cooking . She published the book ` The Boston Cooking School Cookbook ' in 1896 which had 1849 recipes .