8 medium potatoes
1/2 margarine
2 can egg yolks only!
1 can salt to taste
Directions
1. Peel and boil the potatoes until they are soft. 2.
Dice the onion and fry in a small pan with a teaspoon
of margarine until browned and soft. 3. Add the onions
and melted butter from the pan into the potatoes. 4.
Salt and pepper to taste. 5. Use an ice cream scooper
to make small mound shapes and place on a baking
sheet. 6. Brush each potatoe mound with egg yolk. 7.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until golden
brown.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Vegetable
The History of Recipes
Experts have traced the existence of recipes far back into antiquity, in fact as far as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. Interesting though that maybe, in the main part, these early records were just very basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to experts is a series of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making those who drank it feel blissful. During the time of the Roman Empire a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts showing how to cook the recipes prepared by wealthy Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and afters, something we still use today. This early Roman chef describes how the ancient cooks used many different spices and herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs such as thyme, fennel and parsley. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find two books which were published in the fourteenth century ; a recipe book called `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these have no connection with the curry that is familiar to us all today, but rather recipes for the types of food on the menus of the rich and wealthy people of the period. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought back many new foods and spices from Arab cuisine, including spices like basil and coriander. These new spices and herbs prompted an explosion in manuscripts on cooking, most of which still exist in private collections. Over the following few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy houses strove to lay on the most extravagent meals, and because of this the best chefs and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Even so, it wasn`t until the 19th century that cooking and recipe books really came of age. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to collating, testing, and publishing recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the arrival of the 20th century, cook books are starting to become popular as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having increased spare time and disposable income. |
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