Ingredients
1 cup black coffee
1 oz amaretto
1 whipped topping
1 maraschino cherry
Directions
Fill coffee mug or cup with hot coffee. Stir in amaretto. Top with
pressurized dessert topping and cherry. Serve with teaspoon.
Recipe By : Joe Robertson
Servings: 1 servings
Amaretto Cafz (Italian Coffee) Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Alcohol; Beverages; Coffee; Italian
The History of Recipes
We are able to trace the history of `recipes` back into ancient history, certainly as far as the early Egyptians, and maybe further still. Interesting though that is, in the main part, these ancient cookbooks were just simple hieroglyphic instructions for preparing food.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a collection of ancient tablets in Sumerian which recount the baking 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 exhilarated. Progressing into The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled some scripts describing recipes cooked by his fellow Romans. In his works, he tells us how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and dessert, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius also recounts how the ancient cooks used many different aromatic flavors, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs for example thyme, rue and dill. Moving on, there were a couple of interesting recipe books published in the fourteenth century : a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these books have no connection with the indian food that appears on menues today, but instead descriptions of the types of meals on the menus of the nobility of that period. Later, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought us many foods and spices from the holy land, including spices like basil and rosemary. These new foods and spices caused an explosion in recipe manuscripts, some of which are now in academic collections. Like it or not, the introduction of TV gave us cooking programs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing everyone to access thousands of recipes like those on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
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