1 cup margarine -- softened
1 egg white -- whipped
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 1/2 cup unbleached flour
1 1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp red food coloring
1 tsp blue food coloring
Directions
In a mixing bowl, combine margarine, egg white, and vanilla extract.
In anther mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and baking powder. Mix
wet ingredients with dry ingredients just until moistened. Divide
dough into 3 equal portions. Tint 1 portion with red food coloring
and another portion with blue food coloring. Mix throughly to get a
uniform color. Untinted dough represents white. Form each portion
into long bars. Wrap each bar in waxed paper. Refrigerate until easy
to handle. Remove wax paper and stack bars on top of each other in
the desired color arrangement. Wrap entire bars in waxed paper again
and chill until firm. Preheat oven to 350. Slice bars into 1/4"
thick. Place on baking sheet. Bake for 12 minutes.
Recipe By : Women's Circle, Home Cooking
Servings: 36 servings
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The History of Recipes
It is possible to follow the history of written recipes far back into ancient history, at least as far as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further than that. However, mostly, these ancient records were just very simple pictorial instructions for food preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe in existence, according to academics are a few clay tablets in ancient Sumerian which describe the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making people feel `blissful`. Later on, there were two interesting books published in the 14th Century - a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these books are nothing to do with the indian curry that is served today, but rather descriptions of the types of food eaten by the rich and powerful of the time. For the centuries that followed, the rich and powerful families of the West competed with each other to serve up the most extravagent banquests, and as a consequence, cooks and their recipes were much in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the 1800s that cookery and cookery books became really popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to collating, testing, and publishing recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the time we get to the 20th century, cookery books were in high demand, as a result of more people being able to read, people having more free time and having more disposable income. |
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