18 cup popped popcorn
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup light corn syrup
1 package strawberry jello, 4 serv. size
Directions
Recipe by: Jello Cookbook Place popcorn in a large greased bowl.
Combine corn syrup and sugar in med
Servings: 1 servings
Christmas Popcorn Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Appetizer; Christmas; Holiday
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to follow the history of written cooking instructions way back into antiquity, at least as far as early Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that maybe, in the main part, these early cook books were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to food historians is a series of clay 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 drinkers feel exhilarated. Later on, in Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius created a few scripts detailing recipes enjoyed by the Romans. In his works, Apicius tells us how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into appetizers, entrees and afters, a style of dining still practiced today. Aspicius also informs us how the cooks of Roman times made use of a good variety of herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs like thyme, rue and asafoetida. Closer to modern times, we find a couple of recipe books which date from the 1300s - a cookery book called `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these two books are nothing to do with the curry that is popular today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared by the cooks of the upper classes. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought us a variety of spices and herbs from the holy land, including spices such as coriander, basil and rosemary. These new culinary innovations led to an outbreak in manuscripts on cooking, many of which are now in private libraries. During the succeeding few hundred years, the families of Europe competed to serve up the most exotic banquets, and consequentially chefs and their recipes could command a high salary. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s that cooking and recipe collections became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated years of their lives to collecting, verifying, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the arrival of the 1900s, cookbooks were highly popular mostly due to better eduction, increased leisure time and having more money to spend. Like it or not, the introduction of television gave us TV cooks and the accompanying recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, allowing everybody to search through thousands of recipes such as those found on the site you are now reading. |
We hope you enjoy this Christmas Popcorn recipe.
