1/2 cup sweet butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 each egg whites
3/4 cup flour, sifted
Directions
Cream the butter with sugar. Add vanilla and egg whites, and beat
well. Add flour, and mix it in well. Put dough into cookie press and
press thru wide round opening to make pencil-shaped cookies. Place
them, far apart, on a cold, buttered cookie sheet. Bake in preheated
400 F. oven for 7 to 8 min. Watch carefully to prevent their burning.
Servings: 1 servings
Lagk-Te-Sa ("Cat's Tongues") Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Meat
The History of Recipes
Food historians have proved the existance of recipes far back into antiquity, certainly as far back into recorded history as the Egyptians, and possibly even further. Interesting though that maybe, these, early records were just primitive pictorial recipes for preparing meals.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a collection of clay tablets in Sumerian describing the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as having made anyone who drank it feel blissful and exhilarated. As we move into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some documents which described recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his works, Apicius recounts how the meals were separated into appetizers, main meal and desserts, a very modern way of dining. Aspicius also recounts how the Romans were skilled in the use of many different herbs, including a few you will know for example basil, rue and parsley. Over the next few hundred years, the powerful and wealthy houses tried to serve the most exotic banquets, and because of this chefs and their recipes were greatly in demand. Even so, it was during the 19th century that cookery and recipe books rose to prominence. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, spent years to collating, verifying, and writing down the recipes of their peers. When we get to the 1900s, cook books are increasing in popularity mostly due to higher levels of literacy, leisure time and being a little richer. |
We hope you enjoy this Lagk Te Sa (_Cat's Tongues_) recipe.
