1 package yellow cake mix
1 can sweetened condensed milk
10 oz frozen strawberry halves, in syrup, thawed
19 oz strawberry ice cream topping
8 oz whipped topping
3/4 cup cocktail salted peanuts
Directions
Prepare cake mix according to package instructions. Bake in 9x13" pan
and cool. Poke holes in cake with the handle of a wooden spoon. Pour
condensed milk evenly over cake and into holes. Combine thawed
strawberries and ice cream topping syrup and mix well. Spoon evenly
over cake and into holes. Spread whipped topping over the top. Chop
peanuts and sprinkle on top of whipped topping. Chill before serving.
Servings: 16 servings
Almost As Good As Sex Cake * Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Cake; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Food historians have proved the existance of recipes far back into the far past, in truth as far back as ancient Egypt, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these old records were just primitive hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe found, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a collection of tablets in the Sumerian language which recount 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 `wonderful`. During the time of the Roman Empire a roman called Apicius created some documents which described recipes cooked by the Romans. In his publication, he describes how the meals were separated into appetizers, main meal and desserts, a very modern way of dining. He also informs us how the ancient Romans were skilled in the use of a good variety of spices, including a few you will know like thyme, mint and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find two books which appeared in the 14th Century : a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are unconnected to the spicy food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of food on the menus of the rich. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought back many new foods and herbs from the Middle-East, including coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. These new spices and herbs led to an eruption in books on cooking, the majority of which are kept safe in private libraries. Over the following few hundred years, the powerful and rich tried to offer the most exotic meals, and as a result the best cooks and their collection of recipes were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the 19th century that fine cooking and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, spent years to collecting, testing, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the arrival of the 20th century, cookbooks are starting to become popular mostly as a result of increased literacy, people having more leisure time and being a little richer. Like it or not, the introduction of television gave us celebrity TV chefs and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting everyone to access massive numbers of recipes such as those found on this web site. |
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