1 lb smooth peanut butter
1/2 cup butter
3 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
3 cup rice krispies
Directions
Mix the ingredients together. Make small balls, and coat with 1
package of chocolate chips and 1/4 bar of paraffin wax melted
together in a double boiler. Dip each in the mixture, and put on wax
paper to cool.
Servings: 6 dozen
Andrea Cassoni's Buckeyes Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Candy; Grain; Pie; Rice; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
It is possible to follow the history of written recipes back into distant history, certainly as far back as early Egypt, and maybe further still. However, sadly, these early records were just basic hieroglyphic instructions for food preparation.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to food historians is a series of ancient tablets in Sumerian 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 drinkers feel `wonderful`. Later on, in The time of the romans 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some documents showing how to cook the recipes cooked by his fellow Romans. In his scrolls, he tells us how the roman meals were split into starters, entrees and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius tells us how the cooks of Roman times were skilled in the use of many herbs, including some that we all recognise like basil, fennel and asafoetida. Continuing our culinary historical journey, we find some interesting books which were published in the 1300s ; a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, they are nothing to do with the spicy food that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of food eaten by the rich and wealthy people of the period. Later on, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and herbs from the holy land, including spices such as parsley and basil. The introduction of these new foods and spices was responsible for an outbreak in manuscripts on cookery, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. Over the succeeding few centuries, the powerful and wealthy houses strove to offer the most extravagent meals, and consequentially chefs and their recipe collections could command a high salary. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s the formal cooking and recipe publications became really popular. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to collecting, verifying, and recording recipes to help cooks of their time. When we get to the 20th century, cook books are greatly in demand mostly as a result of better eduction, more spare time and having more money to spend. The TV revolution gave us TV chefs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. And that brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everybody to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on the site you are now reading. |
We hope you enjoy this Andrea Cassoni's Buckeyes recipe.
