6 each tart apples
1 cup sugar
1 1/2 cup water
1 jelly, marmalade
1 or preserved fruit
1 sliced almonds
Directions
Core and pare tart apples. For 6 apples, cook together for 5 minutes
1 cup sugar, and 1 1/2 cups water. Add apples, simmer until tender
but not mushy. Baste often with syrup in pan. Drain, cool, fill with
jelly, marmalade, or preserved fruit. Stick with bits of sliced
almonds. Serve with whipped cream as a dessert. From Apple Recipes by
the Connecticut Apple Marketing Board and
the Connecticut department of Agriculture
Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Apple; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as a concept can be tracked far back into the distant past, certainly as far into history as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further. However, mostly, these old records were just very basic hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for meal preparation.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to historians are a few tablets in ancient Sumerian describing the baking 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. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, we find a couple of interesting recipe books which were published in the 1300s - one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, these books are not about the curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead recipes for the types of food on the menues of the rich and powerful of that time. Over the succeeding few centuries, the families of Europe competed with each other to lay on the most extravagent meals, and because of this chefs and their recipes were much in demand. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that cooking and recipe books reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collecting, trying out, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. When we get to the 20th century, cookbooks were in high demand, as a result of higher levels of literacy, more spare time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Apple Porcupine recipe.
