1/2 cup shortening
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/2 cup raisins or nuts
6 tbsp water (hot)
2 cup flour
1/2 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup cocoa
1 tsp vanilla
Directions
Cream shortening and sugar, stir into creamed shortening beaten eggs,
raisins and 2 tablespoons of hot water. Sift dry ingredients together
and add. Dissolve cocoa in 4 tablespoons of hot water and add last.
Mix well. Drop by teaspoon on greased baking sheet, place nut or
raisin on top of each cookie. Bake
15 minutes at 350 degrees.
From Fern (mom) Hartford (Alvadore Church Recipes 1950s) End
Servings: 6 servings
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The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of written recipes far back into ancient history, at least as far back into history as the early Egyptians, and maybe further still. Interesting though that is, these, early records were just very basic pictorial recipes for preparing meals.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some tablets in Sumerian which recount the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who drank it feel `wonderful`. Later on, in Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius created a collection of documents describing recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into appetizers, main course and afters, something we still use today. Aspicius tells us how the ancient Romans were skilled in the use of a wide range of herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern cooks like basil, fennel and asafoetida. Later on, there were some recipe books dating from the 14th Century : a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these two books are unconnected to the spicy food that is familiar to us all today, but rather recipes for the types of food enjoyed by the nobility of that time. Later on in the 1400s, people returning from the crusades brought us many foods, spices and herbs from middle-east cuisine, including parsley, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new culinary ideas led to a torrent in cookery books, most of which still exist in private libraries. For the next few years, the rich and powerful families of the West competed with each other to offer the best banquets, and because of this the best cooks and their collection of recipes were highly sought after. However, it was during the nineteenth century the formal cooking and recipe books really came of age. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to assembling, verifying, and publishing recipes to allow everyone to enjoy them. By the advent of the twentieth century, cookery books are in great demand, due to higher levels of literacy, more leisure time and being a little richer. The introduction of the TV gave us TV cookery programs and the spin-off recipe books. And that brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, permitting everyone to access massive numbers of recipes just like those on the site you are now reading. |
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