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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
We can track the history of written recipes back into antiquity, at least as far back as the early Egyptians, and maybe even further. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these old records were just simple hieroglyphic recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to historians are some ancient tablets in ancient 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 anyone who tried it feel blissful. During Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a collection of scripts detailing recipes prepared by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, Apicius tells us how the roman meals were split into hors d`oeuvre, entrees and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. This early Roman chef informs us how the ancient Romans made use of many herbs, including some familiar names like basil, fennel and dill. Closer to modern times, we have a couple of cookery books from the 14th Century : one book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these are nothing to do with the curry that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of meals prepared by the chefs of the upper classes of that time. In the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods, spices and herbs from middle-east cuisine, such as coriander, parsley, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new herbs and spices prompted a surge in manuscripts on food, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. During the succeeding few centuries, the upper-class families of Wesstern Europe competed to lay on the best banquets, and because of this cooks and their collection of recipes were greatly in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the 1800s that formal cookery and recipe publications became really popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, verifying, and writing down recipes to help cooks of their time. By the arrival of the 1900s, cooking books are highly popular due to higher levels of literacy, more free time and having more money. Like it or not, the introduction of television brings us TV cooks and the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting everyone to search through massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on the site you are now reading. |
We hope you enjoy this Pickled Crab Apples recipe.
