3 qt water
1 cup sugar
12 decaffeinated tea bags
1/2 cup fresh orange juice
1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
5 sprigs of fresh mint
Directions
Bring water to a boil in saucepan; add teabags. Steep for 10 minutes;
discard tea bags. Combine sugar, orange juice and lemon juice in large
glass bowl. Stir in tea; add mint. Let stand for 30 mniutes; discard
mint. Chill until serving time.
Source: Great Recipes from Great Gardeners
Servings: 12 servings
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Categories: Beverages; Drink
The History of Recipes
We can read the history of meal recipes far back into ancient history, certainly as far as the early Egyptians, and maybe even further. Interesting though that is, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just very basic pictorial recipes for food preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to academics is a series of ancient tablets in Sumerian which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel `blissful`. Later on, in The time of the roman empire 25BC a man called Apicius assembled a few documents describing recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he tells us how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into starters, main course and afters, a very modern way of dining. This early Roman chef informs us how the Romans used a wide range of herbs and spices, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs such as basil, fennel and parsley. For the decades that followed, the powerful families of the West competed with each other to lay on the most extravagent meals, and because of this cooks and their recipe collections were much in demand. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that cooking and cookery books became popular. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to assembling, verifying, and publishing popular recipes of the day. By the time we get to the 1900s, recipe books are in high demand, mostly as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having more spare time and having more disposable income. |
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