4 oz flour
1 oz fine oatmeal
1 cup buttermilk or milk
1 each egg (beaten)
8 each strips bacon
Directions
Sift the dry ingredients, then add the egg and enough milk or
buttermilk to make a batter like thick cream. Fry the bacon rashers
and drain, then make a large pancake, pouring the batter over the
entire bottom of teh pan. Cook on one side, toss over, spread with a
little mustard if liked, then add the bacon and fold over. Make the
rest of the batter into pancakes the same way. Makes 4 very large
pancakes or 8 small ones.
Servings: 8 servings
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Categories: Breakfast; Cake; Meat; Pancake; Pork
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of `recipes` way back into the far past, at least as far back into history as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these early records were just very basic pictorial recipes for meal preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered, according to food historians are a few ancient tablets in the Sumerian language 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 making people feel wonderful and blissful. Progressing into Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a collection of documents describing recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his works, Apicius recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into starters, main course and desserts, something we still use today. He also describes how the cooks of Roman times used a wide range of aromatic flavors, including a few you will know like bay, rue and asafoetida. Later on, we have some recipe books which date from the 14th Century - a book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another called `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are not about the indian curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of meals served to the rich and powerful of those days. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought back many spices and herbs from the holy land, including coriander, parsley, and rosemary. The introduction of these new culinary ideas was responsible for an increase in books on cookery, most of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. By the advent of the twentieth century, cooking books are in great demand, mostly due to better eduction, people having more spare time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Oatmeal Bacon Pancakes (Irish) recipe.
