Located at the site where the home of Fannie Farmer once stood, a commemorative plaque, installed by the Medford Historical Society, reads:

“Fannie Merritt Farmer (1857 – 1915) lived in a duplex house which stood on this site until destroyed by fire in 1979. The Farmer Family owned the house throughout her lifetime. Fannie moved to Medford as a child and attended Medford Public Schools and the Unitarian Church. At the age of 13 the redheaded student became paralyzed from the waist down and dropped out of Medford High School. She eventually recovered but always retained a limp.  She was confined to a wheelchair the last seven years of her life. Fannie Farmer always considered Medford her home.

She graduated the Boston Cooking School in 1889 and became its director in 1891. In 1896 she edited the world famous “Boston Cooking School Cookbook”, otherwise known as the “Bride’s Bible”. In 1902 she opened “Miss Farmer’s School of Cookery”.

Called “the Mother of the Level Measurement”, she was most proud of her introduction into cooking of exact measurement.

After her death her heirs allowed Fannie Farmer’s name to be associated with quality candies by the “Fanny Farmer Candy Shops, Inc.”

Medford Historical Society 1988

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