3/4 cup flour
1/3 cup butter
2 eggs
2 cup brown sugar
1/8 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup nuts
1/2 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup confectioners sugar
1 tsp lemon rind, grated
1 1/2 tbsp lemon juice
Directions
Mix flour and butter into a fine crumb and pat down into an 11" X 7"
pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 minutes. Beat eggs. Mix brown sugar,
nuts, baking powder and vanilla and spread onto hot crumb mixture.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes. Mix confectioners' sugar, lemon
rind and juice and spread over hot cake. Cool well and cut into
squares. Mrs. John Hopkins IV
Servings: 1 servings
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The History of Recipes
It is possible to follow the history of meal recipes back into antiquity, in fact as far as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, mostly, these early cook books were just very basic pictorial instructions for preparing food.
In fact, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to food historians are some clay tablets in Sumerian which describe the preparation 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. Later on, in The time of the romans around 25BC a man called Apicius compiled a collection of scripts showing how to cook the recipes prepared by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he describes how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into hors d`oeuvre, entrees and afters, something we still use today. Additionally, he recounts how the chefs of Roman times used many herbs and spices, including some that we all recognise such as thyme, rue and dill. Later, there are two books published in the 14th Century - a cookery book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these are nothing to do with the curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of meals eaten by the nobility of that time. Later on in the 1400s, the Crusaders brought back many new foods and spices from the holy lands, such as coriander, basil and rosemary. These new foods and tastes prompted an outbreak in manuscripts on food, most of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. By the time we get to the 20th century, cooking books were starting to become popular as a result of better eduction, people having more spare time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Lemon Bars recipe.
