Ingredients
1/2 cup butter
2 tbsp sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup cake flour
1 cup ground walnuts
Directions
Cream together butter and sugar. Add the remaining ingredients. Roll
into balls and bake for 30 minutes in a 325F oven. When warm, roll in
confectioners' sugar and cool. Repeat rolling in sugar.
Servings: 36 cookies
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Categories: Cookie
The History of Recipes
It is possible to read the history of `recipes` back into the far past, at least as far back as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and possibly even further. However, mostly, these old records were just very simple pictorial recipes for preparing food.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians is a collection of ancient tablets in ancient Sumerian which describe 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 `blissful`. Later on, in The time of the roman empire 25BC a man called Apicius created a few documents detailing recipes enjoyed by his fellow Romans. In his publication, Apicius describes how the roman meals were divided into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and afters, something we still use today. Aspicius also informs us how the cooks of his times were skilled in the use of a wide range of spices and herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs for example bay, mint and parsley. Later, we have two recipe books published in the 1300s - one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, these are unconnected to the spicy food that is familiar to us all today, but rather accounts of the types of meals eaten by the rich people of the period. Later, in the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us a variety of foods and spices from the holy land, including spices such as coriander, parsley, and basil. These new herbs and spices caused an eruption in manuscripts on cookery, most of which still exist in private cookery archives. For the decades that followed, the rich families of Wesstern Europe competed to serve up the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially chefs and their recipes were greatly in demand. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the 19th century that cooking and recipe books became really popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the US, spent years to assembling, testing, and publishing the recipes of their peers. By the time we get to the 1900s, cooking publications are highly popular as a result of better eduction, more spare time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Andy Cassoni's Butter Ball Cookies recipe.
