1 lb bacon
8 oz cream cheese, softened
8 oz cheddar cheese, shredded
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/8 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp worcestershire sauce
1 chopped nuts
Directions
Cook bacon; drain and crumble. Combine with rest of ingredients
(except nuts) and form into ball. Roll in nuts.
Servings: 1 servings
Bacon Cheese Ball Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Appetizer; Cheese; Meat; Pork
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of meal recipes way back into distant history, in fact as far back as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that maybe, sadly, these old cookbooks were just very basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing meals.
In fact, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to academics are a few stone tablets in the Sumerian language 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 anyone who tried it feel `wonderful`. Later on, in Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a number of documents showing how to cook the recipes cooked by his fellow Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main course and desserts, a style of dining still practiced today. He also recounts how the cooks of Roman times made use of a wide range of aromatic flavors, including some familiar names for example thyme, mint and asafoetida. Later on, there were some interesting books which were published in the fourteenth century : a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these are unconnected to the indian curry that is popular today, but rather accounts of the types of meals eaten by the nobility of that period. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and spices from the holy lands, including spices like parsley, basil and rosemary. These new spices and herbs prompted a torrent in books on cookery, many of which are now in private cookery archives. For the next few years, the upper-class families of the West strove to offer the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially the best chefs and their collection of recipes were much in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that cookery and recipe collections rose to prominence. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to assembling, trying out, and writing down recipes common in their social group. By the advent of the twentieth century, cookery publications were greatly in demand as a result of better eduction, people having increased leisure time and having more disposable income. The introduction of the TV brings us TV chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, allowing everybody to search through massive numbers of recipes just like those on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
We hope you enjoy this Bacon Cheese Ball recipe.
