1 hard cider
1 orange ice
Directions
Fill tall glasses half full of hard cider and add a large scoop of
orange ice. Serve at once. Variations. Substitute lemon, pineapple or
any kind of fruit ice for orange ice.
Servings: 1 servings
Cider & Orange Cooler Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beverages; Fruit
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to track the history of transcribed cooking instructions way back into antiquity, at least as far back into history as early Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Having said that, these, early cookbooks were just primitive hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians are a few tablets in Sumerian which show 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 anyone who drank it feel blissful and exhilarated. Progressing into The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled a number of documents describing recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his scrolls, he tells us how the roman meals were divided into starters, entrees and dessert, something we still use today. He also tells us how the chefs of Roman times were skilled in the use of many aromatic flavours, including a few you will know like basil, mint and parsley. Moving on, there were some recipe books which were published in the fourteenth century ; one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, they are nothing to do with the indian food that is familiar to us all today, but rather descriptions of the types of food on the menus of the upper classes of that period. Later, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought us many foods and herbs from the holy lands, including parsley and basil. These new culinary innovations was responsible for a surge in recipe publications, most of which still exist in academic collections. During the following few centuries, the rich and powerful families of Wesstern Europe competed with each other to offer the most extravagent meals, and consequentially the best cooks and their recipe collections were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s that haute cuisine and recipe books became really popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to collecting, trying out, and publishing recipes to help cooks of their time. By the advent of the 1900s, cookery books were in great demand, mostly as a result of better eduction, people having increased free time and having more money. Like it or not, the introduction of TV brings us TV cookery programs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. And that pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everybody to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
We hope you enjoy this Cider & Orange Cooler recipe.
