Education
She attended the Boston Cooking School, and upon graduating in 1889 she became its assistant director.
She attended the Boston Cooking School, and upon graduating in 1889 she became its assistant director.
She directed the school from 1891 to 1902, when she opened her own school, Miss Farmer's School of Cookery, in Boston. She also lectured at New England hospitals on cookery for invalids. Farmer was one of the first to stress the importance of using standard level measurements and of following recipes exactly. Her best known cookbook was the much reprinted Boston Cooking School Cook Book (1896). She wrote on cooking for the Woman's Home Companion from 1905 to 1915.