2 cup sugar
1 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 cup hershey's cocoa
2 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 eggs
1 cup buttermilk or sour milk*
1 cup strong black coffee or 2 teaspoons
1 powdered instant coffee plus 1 cup
1 boiling water
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
Directions
Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and flour two 9-inch round
baking pans or one I 3x9x2 inch baking pan. in a large bowl, stir
together sugar, flour, cocoa, baking Soda, baking powder and salt.
Add eggs, buttermilk, coffee, oil and vanilla; beat on medium speed
of electric mixer 2 minutes (batter will be thin). Pour batter into
prepared pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes for round pans, 35 to 40 minutes
for rectangular pan or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out
clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire racks. Cool
completely. Frost as desired. 10 to 12 servings.
* To sour milk: Use 1 tablespoon white vinegar plus milk to equal 1
cup.
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Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens.
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The History of Recipes
Written recipes as an idea can be traced way back into ancient history, in fact as far back as the Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. However, these, ancient cookbooks were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to historians are a few tablets in ancient Sumerian which recount the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who drank it feel exhilarated and blissful. Later on, in The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled a collection of documents describing recipes prepared by the Romans. In his works, he describes how the meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, entrees and afters, something we still use today. Additionally, he recounts how the Roman cooks used a wide range of herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern cooks for example basil, rue and parsley. Later, there were a couple of interesting books which appeared in the 14th Century - one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these are nothing to do with the spicy food that is familiar to us all today, but rather accounts of the types of food enjoyed by the upper classes of the period. Later, in the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought back many foods and herbs from Arab cuisine, such as coriander, basil and rosemary. These new foods and tastes prompted an outbreak in manuscripts on cookery, most of which are now in private cookery archives. By the time we get to the 1900s, cookery publications were in great demand, mostly as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having more free time and having more money. |
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