1 1/2 lb cranberries
2 cup maple sugar
1 1/2 cup birch sap -=or=- spring - water
Directions
Place all ingredients into a saucepan & bring to a boil. Reduce heat &
simmer for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool & serve.
Servings: 1 recipe
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Categories: Cranberry; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Food historians have tracked the existence of recipes way back into distant history, in truth as far back as ancient Egypt, and possibly even further. In practice though, generally, these early cook books were just primitive hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for meal preparation.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to historians is a collection of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language describing the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who drank it feel wonderful and blissful. As we move into The time of the roman empire 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a number of documents which described recipes cooked by the Romans. In his publication, Apicius recounts how the meals were separated into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and dessert, something that is very familiar to us today. He also describes how the cooks of Roman times made use of a good variety of aromatic flavors, including some that we all recognise like bay, rue and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times there were two interesting recipe books which date from the 1300s : one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary named `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these books have no connection with the curry that appears on menues today, but rather recipes for the types of meals prepared for the upper classes of the time. In the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought back many new spices and herbs from Arab cuisine, such as basil and rosemary. These new culinary innovations caused an explosion in publications on food, some of which are now in private collections. By the arrival of the twentieth century, cookery publications were starting to become popular mostly due to higher levels of literacy, more free time and having more money. The introduction of television brings us celebrity TV chefs and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everybody to search through massive numbers of recipes such as those found on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
We hope you enjoy this Mashkigimin Onagan (Traditional Cranberry Sau recipe.
