1 lb loaf of french bread
1 pesto sauce
1 black olives
1 mozzarella cheese
1 fresh parmesan, grated
1 fresh roma tomatoes, sliced
Directions
Slice French bread in half lengthwise (ie. 2 halves for a 1 lb loaf
or 4 "halves" for 2 1/2 lb loaves). Spread cut sides of bread with
pesto (about 1 cup). Top with black olives and slices of roma
tomatoes. Top generously with mozzarella cheese and 1/4 to 1/2 cup
parmesan cheese. Bake in oven until cheese is bubbly. Serve as
appetizers or as a main meal. Slice as desired.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Bread; Breads; French; Italian; Pasta
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as an idea can be traced way back into the far past, certainly as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and maybe further still. Interesting though that is, mostly, these ancient cook books were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts is a collection of ancient tablets in the Sumerian language 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 anyone who tried it feel exhilarated and blissful. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, we have a couple of recipe books which appeared in the 14th Century - a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are somewhat misleading tho`, these are nothing to do with the curry that we all know today, but rather accounts of the types of food prepared by the chefs of the upper classes of the period. Over the next few hundred years, the upper-class families of Wesstern Europe competed to serve the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, the best cooks and their recipes became highly prized. However, it wasn`t until the 1800s that formal cookery and recipe books became really popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated their lives to assembling, verifying, and publishing recipes common in their social group. When we get to the 1900s, cooking books are highly popular mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having more leisure time and disposable income. |
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