1 cup butter, softened
1/2 cup plus 1 1/2 tb sugar
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp vanilla
1 sugar for rolling
Directions
Preparation time: 15 minutes Baking time: 17 to 20 minutes per batch
1. Heat oven to 300 degrees. Cream butter and sugar. Add flour, a
little at a time, then vanilla. Stir until blended.
2. Roll dough into small balls the size of a walnut, then roll the
balls in sugar. Flatten with cookie stamp or bottom of a glass. Put
onto ungreased cookie sheet. Bake until edges are lightly browned, 17
to 20 minutes. This dough needs no chilling, rolling or cutting. It
is easily doubled. Honorable mention went to Agnes Da Costa of
Chicago. from the Chicago Tribune second annual Food Guide Holiday
Cookie Contest December 14, 1989
Servings: 36 servings
1989 Honorable Mention: Butter Cookies You'd Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Cookie
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of `recipes` back into the far past, certainly as far back as pharonic Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that is, these, ancient records were just basic hieroglyphic recipes for preparing meals.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to food historians are some stone tablets in the Sumerian language describing 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 exhilarated. Progressing into Roman times around 25BC a man called Apicius created a number of documents describing recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were divided into hors d`oeuvres, entrees and desserts, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius informs us how the ancient chefs made use of many different spices and herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs such as basil, fennel and parsley. Later on, we have a couple of interesting recipe books which were published in the fourteenth century ; a book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, these books are nothing to do with the indian curry that appears on menues today, but instead descriptions of the types of meals served to the rich and wealthy people of that time. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought us many foods and spices from Arab cuisine, including parsley and basil. The introduction of these new culinary ideas caused a surge in recipe books, some of which are now in academic collections. The introduction of the TV brings us cooking programs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. And that pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting us all to search through thousands of recipes like those on this site. |
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