3 1/4 cup cold water
1/2 cup lemon juice
1 sugar substitute *
Directions
* Sugar substitute is either 4 to 8 envelopes or 1
1/2 t or to taste.
Servings: 4 servings
Low Calorie Lemonade Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beverages; Diet; Fruit; Healthy; Low Calorie
The History of Recipes
We can read the history of meal recipes far back into antiquity, in fact as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and maybe even further. However, in the main part, these old records were just very basic hieroglyphic instructions for preparing meals.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some clay tablets in the Sumerian language which describe 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 those who drank it feel blissful. During the time of the Roman Empire a man called Apicius compiled a number of scripts detailing recipes cooked by the Romans. In his scrolls, he tells us how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into hors d`oeuvres, entrees and afters, a very modern way of dining. He also describes how the ancient cooks made use of a good variety of herbs, including many that are still in use today like thyme, fennel and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there are some recipe books from the 14th Century - a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these books are nothing to do with the spicy food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of meals served to the upper classes of the time. In the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many foods, spices and herbs from Arab cuisine, including coriander, parsley, and rosemary. The introduction of these new herbs and spices created a surge in cookery books, the majority of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. The introduction of television brought us TV cookery programs and the spin-off recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing us all to search through massive numbers of recipes such as those found on the site you are now reading. |
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