1 coffee ice cream
6 dessert tostada cups
1 orange-ginger sauce
Directions
Place 2 or 3 scoops of Coffee Ice Cream in the center of a tostada
cup. Top with Orange-Ginger Sauce. Eat right away.
from The Well-Filled Tortilla by Victoria Wise and Susanna Hoffman
typed by Tiffany Hall-Graham
Servings: 6 servings
Coffee Ice Cream With Orange-Ginger Sauce Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beverages; Coffee; Dessert; Fruit; Ice Cream
The History of Recipes
Academics have tracked the existence of recipes far back into distant history, in fact as far as pharonic Egypt, and maybe even further. Having said that, these, old cook books were just basic hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for meal preparation.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe discovered, according to food historians are a few tablets in ancient Sumerian which describe the baking 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 blissful. Progressing into Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled some scripts describing recipes cooked by wealthy Romans. In his works, Apicius recounts how the roman meals were separated into starters, main course and afters, a style of dining still practiced today. This early Roman chef informs us how the Roman chefs were skilled in the use of a wide range of aromatic flavors, including some familiar names for example bay, mint and parsley. Continuing our culinary historical journey, there were a couple of interesting recipe books published in the 14th Century : a book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, they are unconnected to the curry that is popular today, but instead recipes for the types of meals served to the rich people of that time. Later on, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought us many foods and spices from the holy land, including coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. These new spices and herbs was responsible for a torrent in manuscripts on cooking, many of which are kept safe in private collections. Over the succeeding few centuries, the rich and powerful families of the West competed with each other to serve the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially the best cooks and their collection of recipes could command a high salary. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that formal cookery and recipe collections became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, spent years to assembling, trying out, and writing down recipes of the day. When we get to the twentieth century, cookery books are in high demand, as a result of better eduction, people having more leisure time and having more money to spend. The TV revolution gave us cooking programs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which brings us neatly up to date and the invention of the internet, allowing us all to access thousands of recipes just like those on sites such as this. |
We hope you enjoy this Coffee Ice Cream With Orange Ginger Sauce recipe.
