1/2 cup flour
1/2 cup coconut
1/4 cup corn syrup
1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 cup margarine
1/2 tsp vanilla
Directions
Mix flour with coconut. Combine syrup, sugar and margarine in
saucepan. Cook over medium heat. Stir until well blended. Remove from
heat; stir in vanilla. Blend in flour mixture. Drop by teaspoonfuls
3-4" apart on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 325~ for 8 to
10 minutes.
Servings: 1 servings
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The History of Recipes
We are able to follow the history of meal recipes back into the distant past, certainly as far back as pharonic Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that is, sadly, these ancient cook books were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe in existence, according to historians are a few stone tablets in 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 anyone who drank it feel blissful. As we move on, there are two interesting books which were published in the fourteenth century - one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, they are nothing to do with the indian curry that is served today, but rather accounts of the types of food prepared by the chefs of the upper classes of that period. During the following few hundred years, the powerful families of Wesstern Europe competed with each other to serve the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipes were much in demand. However, it was during the 1800s that cookery and cookery books became really popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to collecting, testing, and publishing recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the time we get to the 1900s, recipe publications were in high demand, as a result of more people being able to read, more leisure time and having more money. The arrival of television brought us cooking programs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. Which brings us neatly to the present day and the invention of the internet, allowing everybody to access massive numbers of recipes such as those found on this recipe site. |
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