2 pt coffee ice cream
1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
3 tbsp whipping cream (or condensed
1 milk)
1 1/2 sleeves of girl scout thin
1 mint cookies (crushed)
Directions
Heavily grease sides and bottom of a 9 inch pie pan with regular (not
light) stick margarine. Crumb cookies in food processor and press
into pie pan. Bake this for 10 minutes at 350 degrees. Soften ice
cream in refrigerator for four hours (or 1 hour room temperature).
Fill baked cool pie shell with ice cream and cover with wax paper.
Freeze. Melt chocolate chips and whipping cream over lowest heat and
spread over pie. Refreeze. From: "Girl Scouts"
Servings: 1 pie
Cafe Au Mint Chocolate Pie (A Girl Scout Cook Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Chocolate; Dessert; Pie
The History of Recipes
Written recipes as a concept can be traced way back into the distant past, in truth as far into history as the early Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. However, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to experts is a series of stone tablets in Sumerian 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 drinkers feel blissful and exhilarated. Much later, in Roman times a man called Apicius assembled a few documents which described recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his publication, Apicius tells us how the meals were divided into starters, entrees and desserts, a very modern way of dining. Aspicius describes how the Romans used many herbs, including a few you will know such as basil, mint and dill. Continuing our culinary historical journey, there are two interesting recipe books from the 14th Century : a recipe book called `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, they are nothing to do with the indian curry that we all know today, but rather accounts of the types of food on the menus of the rich and wealthy people of that time. Later on, in the 15th century, the Crusaders brought back many new foods, spices and herbs from Arab countries, such as coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. These new foods and spices was responsible for a surge in recipe books, the majority of which are now in private cookery archives. Over the succeeding few hundred years, the powerful families of the West tried to offer the best banquets, and as a consequence, cooks and their collection of recipes became highly prized. Nevertheless, it was during the 1800s that cookery and cookery books rose to prominence. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to collecting, verifying, and publishing the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. When we get to the twentieth century, recipe books are starting to become popular due to more people being able to read, people having more free time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Cafe Au Mint Chocolate Pie (A Girl Scout Cook recipe.
