1 package (8oz) cream cheese,
1 softened
1 package (10oz) sharp cheddar cold
1 pack cheese spread
1/4 cup (1oz) blue cheese, crumbled
1 dash celery salt
1 dash onion salt
1/2 cup (4oz) chopped walnuts
Directions
Beat cream cheese, add in Cheddar until well mixed. Stir in blue
cheese, celery and onion salts to taste. Roll into a ball then roll
in nuts. Chill several hours until firm.
Country Accents Christmas Cookies and Holiday Entertaining Ideas 1995
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Appetizer; Cheese
The History of Recipes
Recipes as an idea can be observed back into history, certainly as far as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. In practice though, mostly, these old recipes were just very simple hieroglyphic instructions for preparing food.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to academics are some clay tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the making 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 tried it feel blissful. As we move into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a man called Apicius compiled a number of scripts detailing recipes prepared by the Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main course and desserts, something we still use today. Aspicius also recounts how the ancient Romans made use of a wide range of aromatic flavors, including many that are still in use today such as thyme, fennel and parsley. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, there are a couple of cookery books published in the fourteenth century - a cookery book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these are not about the indian curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of meals prepared by the cooks of the upper classes. In the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought us a variety of foods and spices from middle-east cuisine, including spices like coriander, parsley, and rosemary. The introduction of these new tastes caused a torrent in recipe books, most of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. Over the next few hundred years, the wealthy families of Wesstern Europe competed to lay on the most extravagent banquests, and because of this the best chefs and their recipes were at a premium. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that cookery and recipe books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. When we get to the 1900s, recipe publications are highly popular as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having increased spare time and having more disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Cheddar Blue Cheese Ball recipe.
