2 oz gin
1 oz yellow chartreuse
1 oz grapefruit juice
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Servings: 2 servings
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Categories: Asian; Chinese
The History of Recipes
We can track the history of meal recipes way back into the far past, at least as far back as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further. In practice though, mostly, these old records were just very simple hieroglyphic recipes for food preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to food historians are a few ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which describe the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made drinkers feel exhilarated. Later, we have two recipe books published in the 1300s : a cookery book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, they are nothing to do with the spicy food that is familiar to us all today, but rather recipes for the types of meals cooked for the upper classes of those days. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought back many foods and spices from Arab cuisine, including spices such as parsley, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new tastes was responsible for a surge in cookery books, many of which still exist in private collections. For the centuries that followed, the upper-class families of Europe competed to offer the most extravagent banquests, and because of this chefs and their collection of recipes could command a high salary. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s the formal cooking and recipe collections really came of age. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the time we get to the 20th century, cooking books are in great demand, as a result of higher levels of literacy, increased leisure time and having more money to spend. The introduction of the TV brings us TV cookery programs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much 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 the one you are reading now. |
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