1/2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup margarine or butter
1/3 cup corn syrup
1 cup ground almonds
1/2 cup flour
2 tbsp water
Directions
Line a cookie sheet with foil and grease it. Set aside. In a small
saucepan combine brown sugar, margarine and corn syrup. Cook over
medium heat until margarine is melted and mixture smooth. Remove from
heat and stir in almonds, flour and water. Drop by rounded teaspoons
onto cookie sheet. Bake only 3 or 4 at a time in a 350 F oven for 6
to 8 minutes.Let stand on cookie sheet about 2 minutes. Immediately
remove cookies one at a time and roll around a metal cone, cool on
wire racks. Instead of using a metal cone for shaping you can use a
greased wooden spoon handle or make a cone from pliable cardboard. If
cookies become too hard before you get them shaped, return to oven
for about 30 seconds.
Servings: 12 servings
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The History of Recipes
Recipes as a concept can be found far back into antiquity, at least as far as the early Egyptians, and maybe further still. Having said that, mostly, these early recipes were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe in existence, according to historians is a collection of stone tablets in the Sumerian language which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made those who drank it feel blissful. Continuing our culinary historical journey, we find two interesting books dating from the 14th Century ; one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these two books are not about the indian food that appears on menues today, but rather descriptions of the types of food cooked for the rich and wealthy people of that period. Over the succeeding few centuries, the powerful and wealthy houses competed with each other to serve up the most exotic banquets, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipe collections were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the nineteenth century that fine cookery and recipe publications became really popular. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to collating, trying out, and publishing the recipes of their peers. When we get to the twentieth century, cook books are in high demand, due to more people being able to read, people having more leisure time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Almond Snaps recipe.
