2 cup flour
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup oil
2 eggs
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
4 bananas
Directions
mash bananas and mix with other ingredients. Bake at
350 for 50 minutes.
Servings: 10 servings
Banana Bread Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Banana; Bread; Breads; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Food historians have found proof that recipes existed far back into ancient history, in fact as far back into history as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Having said that, mostly, these old cook books were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
In fact, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to food historians are some ancient tablets in Sumerian which recount the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made people feel `blissful`. Later on, in Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius created a few documents showing how to cook the recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his publication, he recounts how the roman meals were divided into appetizers, main course and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. He also describes how the ancient cooks used many different aromatic flavours, including many that are still in use today like bay, fennel and asafoetida. Later on, we find some interesting books which were published in the 14th Century ; a book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are not about the curry that appears on menues today, but instead recipes for the types of food prepared by the cooks of the rich people of the period. Later on in the 1400s, people returning from the crusades brought us a variety of foods and herbs from the holy lands, including parsley and basil. These new spices and herbs created an increase in manuscripts on cooking, some of which are kept safe in private collections. For the next few years, the upper classes strove to offer the most extravagent meals, and consequentially the best cooks and their recipe collections could command a high salary. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that cooking and recipe publications reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the advent of the twentieth century, cookbooks were greatly in demand mostly as a result of better eduction, people having more spare time and having more money to spend. The introduction of the TV gave us TV chefs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing us all to access thousands of recipes like those on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
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