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Directions
Boil together one part sugar and 2 parts milk until thickened or
until milk registers 225 on candy thermometer.
Servings: 1 servings
Condensed Milk (Sweetened) Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Beverages
The History of Recipes
Written recipes as an idea can be found way back into ancient history, in fact as far back as ancient Egypt, and maybe even further. Having said that, generally, these ancient cook books were just basic hieroglyphic recipes for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to food historians is a collection of stone tablets in the Sumerian language describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made drinkers feel blissful and exhilarated. Progressing into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote a collection of documents describing recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. In his scrolls, he recounts how the meals were split into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and afters, a very modern way of dining. He also describes how the Roman cooks made use of a good variety of aromatic flavours, including a few you will know like thyme, rue and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we find a couple of interesting books which were published in the fourteenth century ; a cookery book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these books have no connection with the spicy food that we all know today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals eaten by the upper classes of the time. In the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back many foods and herbs from Arab cooking, including spices like basil and coriander. The introduction of these new foods and spices caused an explosion in manuscripts on cookery, most of which still exist in academic collections. Over the following few centuries, the powerful and wealthy competed with each other to serve up the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, the best chefs and their recipe collections were at a premium. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the 19th century the formal cooking and recipe books really came of age. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collecting, trying out, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. When we get to the 1900s, cook books were in great demand, mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having increased leisure time and having more money to spend. The arrival of TV gave us TV cookery programs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, permitting us all to search through massive numbers of recipes such as those found on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
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