Colonial Cocktail Recipe

Ingredients

2 oz gin
1 oz grapefruit juice
4 ds


Directions

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Servings: 2 servings

 

 

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Categories: Cocktail; Party


The History of Recipes

Transcribed cooking instructions as an idea can be observed back into ancient history, certainly as far back into history as the early Egyptians, and possibly even further. However, mostly, these ancient records were just very simple hieroglyphic instructions for preparing food.

Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some stone tablets in ancient Sumerian describing the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making people feel `wonderful`.

Progressing into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a man called Apicius created some scripts detailing recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were split into appetizers, main meal and desserts, a style of dining still practiced today. Additionally, he recounts how the ancient cooks made use of many herbs, including many that are still in use today such as thyme, mint and dill.

Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, we have a couple of recipe books dating from the 1300s ; a recipe book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are unconnected to the spicy food that is popular today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals prepared by the cooks of the rich and wealthy people of the period.

In the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods, spices and herbs from Arab cuisine, including spices such as rosemary and coriander. These new herbs and spices led to an eruption in books on cooking, many of which still exist in private collections.

Over the following few centuries, the upper-class families of Europe competed to serve the best banquets, and because of this chefs and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the 19th century that fine cooking and recipe collections really came of age. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to collating, verifying, and recording popular recipes of the day.

When we get to the 1900s, cooking publications were highly popular due to higher levels of literacy, more spare time and being a little richer.

The arrival of TV brings us TV cooks and the spin-off recipe books.

Which pretty much brings us up to date and the internet revolution, allowing everyone to search through thousands of recipes like the ones you can find on this web site.

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