1 oil
1 each env. golden onion soup mix
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
2 each large eggs
1/2 cup beer, any regular beer
1 tbsp prepared mustard
1 vegies 'n' things *
Directions
* Sugguested Veggies 'n' Things:
Use any of the following to equal 4 to 5 cups--broccoli florets,
cauliflowerets, sliced mushrooms, sliced zucchini or chilled
spears
of mozzarella cheese.
Servings: 4 servings
Beer Batter Fried Veggies 'n' Things Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beer; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
Historians have found proof that recipes existed back into the far past, in fact as far as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and maybe further still. In practice though, mostly, these old cook books were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to historians is a collection of ancient tablets in Sumerian which show 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 anyone who drank it feel exhilarated and blissful. Later on, in Roman times 25BC a man called Apicius created a few documents showing how to cook the recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into starters, entrees and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. He also tells us how the cooks of Roman times made use of a wide range of aromatic flavors, including some familiar names such as thyme, mint and parsley. Closer to modern times, we have two books published in the 14th Century ; one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are nothing to do with the curry that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of meals on the tables of the rich and wealthy people of that time. In the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from Arab cuisine, including basil and coriander. The introduction of these new tastes was responsible for a surge in manuscripts on cooking, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. During the succeeding few hundred years, the rich families of Wesstern Europe strove to lay on the most extravagent banquests, and because of this the best cooks and their recipe collections were much in demand. However, it was during the 1800s that cooking and recipe publications really came of age. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated years of their lives to assembling, trying out, and writing down popular recipes of the day. By the arrival of the 1900s, cooking publications are starting to become popular as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having more spare time and having more money. Like it or not, the introduction of television brings us celebrity TV chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everybody to search through thousands of recipes just like those on sites such as this. |
We hope you enjoy this Beer Batter Fried Veggies 'n' Things recipe.
