1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 each egg, separated
1/2 cup milk
1 1/2 cup flour, cake
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
2 tsp cinnamon
Directions
Cream butter and sugar well, then add the beaten egg yolks and beat
well. Add the milk. Sift the dry ingredients together and add to
mixture. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites. Pour into
well-greased layer cake pans and bake at 375-F for 20 minutes. When
cool, ice with favorite frosting. Source: Pennsylvania Dutch Cook
Book - Fine Old Recipes, Culinary Arts Press, 1936.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Cake; Dessert
The History of Recipes
We are able to follow the history of written recipes way back into antiquity, certainly as far into history as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further. Interesting though that maybe, mostly, these ancient cook books were just very basic pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts are a few clay 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 those who drank it feel `wonderful`. Progressing into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts describing recipes enjoyed by the Romans. In his works, Apicius recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were divided into starters, main course and dessert, something that is very familiar to us today. Additionally, he tells us how the cooks of Roman times were skilled in the use of many different aromatic flavours, including some familiar names for example bay, mint and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we find two interesting books dating from the 14th Century ; a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, they are not about the indian food that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of food eaten by the nobility of that period. In the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back many spices and herbs from Arab countries, including parsley and basil. These new herbs and spices led to an increase in recipe publications, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. When we get to the 1900s, cook books are in high demand, mostly due to more people being able to read, people having more leisure time and disposable income. The arrival of TV gave us cooking programs and the accompanying recipe books. Which pretty much brings us up to date and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everybody to access massive numbers of recipes like those on our site. |
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