2 cup green cabbage, shredded
2 cup red cabbage, shredded
1 each green pepper, grated
1 each red pepper, grated
1 each onion, red, grated
1 cup mayonnaise
1/2 cup oil & vinegar dressing
2 each carrots, grated
Directions
Toss vegetables in a glass bowl. Combine mayonnaise and dressing and
pour over and toss gently. Cover & chill overnight.
Servings: 1 servings
Christmas Coleslaw Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Christmas; Holiday; Salad
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to track the history of transcribed cooking instructions far back into history, certainly as far back into history as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. However, these, early cookbooks were just basic hieroglyphic recipes for food preparation.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe in existence, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a series of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. Moving on, we find two recipe books which were published in the fourteenth century ; a recipe book called `Forme of Cury`, and another called `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, they are nothing to do with the spicy food that is popular today, but instead descriptions of the types of food cooked for the rich and wealthy people of those days. Over the succeeding few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy tried to serve up the most exotic banquets, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipes increased in prestige. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the 19th century that formal cookery and cookery books became really popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, testing, and recording the recipes of their peers. When we get to the twentieth century, cook books were starting to become popular mostly due to more people being able to read, more leisure time and a general increase in wealth. |
We hope you enjoy this Christmas Coleslaw recipe.
