2 cup flour, all purpose
1/2 cup butter, or other shortening
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 eggs
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 bananas, mashed
1/2 cup nut meats, or raisins
Directions
Mix well and turn in well greased loaf pan. Bake in moderate oven 350
F for 45 minutes. Remove from oven, let stand in pan a few minutes,
then remove to cool.
Source: Emma Blair, Newbury Grange, Geauga County, OH Mrs. W. F. Work,
Hardy Grange, Holmes County, OH
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Banana; Bread; Breads; Fruit
The History of Recipes
Food historians have traced the existance of recipes far back into history, in truth as far into history as the ancient Egyptians, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that is, these, early cookbooks were just very basic hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a series of tablets in Sumerian which describe the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making drinkers feel wonderful and blissful. During Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote a number of documents which described recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were divided into hors d`oeuvres, entrees and dessert, a very modern way of dining. Aspicius also describes how the early Romans made use of a good variety of spices, including a few that are still present in modern kitchens for example bay, rue and parsley. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find two interesting recipe books dating from the fourteenth century ; one book called `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these books are nothing to do with the indian food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of meals eaten by the rich and powerful of the period. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought back many new spices and herbs from Arab cuisine, including spices like rosemary and coriander. The introduction of these new culinary ideas created an outbreak in recipe publications, the majority of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. During the succeeding few hundred years, the powerful and rich houses tried to offer the most exotic banquets, and because of this the best chefs and their recipe collections were greatly in demand. However, it wasn`t until the 1800s that haute cuisine and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to collecting, testing, and recording recipes of the day. By the arrival of the 1900s, cook books were starting to become popular mostly due to higher levels of literacy, people having increased leisure time and being a little richer. |
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