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Directions
Select firm, well-ripened crab-apples. Wash. Do not pare or remove
stems. Remove blossom ends. Prick skins to prevent fruit bursting.
Cook slowly, until tender, in a pickling sirup as for pickled
peaches. The Household Searchlight
Servings: 6 servings
Pickled Crab-Apples Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Crab; Fish; Fruit; Seafood
The History of Recipes
Food historians have proved the existance of recipes way back into ancient history, in fact as far as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even further. Interesting though that is, generally, these ancient records were just very basic pictorial recipes for preparing food.
Fascinatingly, the most ancient recipe found, according to experts are some ancient tablets in the Sumerian language describing the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making drinkers feel exhilarated and blissful. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times there were two interesting books published in the 1300s - a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these books are nothing to do with the indian food that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of food on the menus of the rich and powerful of those days. Over the next few centuries, the upper-class families of the West competed with each other to serve the most extravagent banquests, and as a result chefs and their recipes increased in prestige. Even so, it wasn`t until the 1800s that haute cuisine and recipe books rose to prominence. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to collating, testing, and writing down recipes common in their social group. The introduction of television brings us cooking programs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which brings us neatly to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, permitting us all to search through thousands of recipes like those on this site. |
We hope you enjoy this Pickled Crab Apples recipe.
