Ingredients
1 1 goldfish bowl
Directions
-(new or well-cleaned) 4 envelopes Knox gelatin
Blue curacao
Purple endive, fennel leaves;
-anything with pretty foliage
Assorted Swedish gummy fish 1 lg package red hots OR jelly beans
-OR other small, hard or
-coated candy
Mix gelatin according to package directions, substituting curacao for
water in whatever ratio you prefer. Place the hard candies in the
bowl. When gelatin is cool but not yet setting up, pour it slowly
into the bowl and be careful not to disturb the candies or the color
will run. Cool until half-set then add foliage and fish, placing them
with strands of spaghetti. Refrigerate until serving time.
Servings: 1 aquarium
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Categories: Fish; Seafood
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to track the history of written cooking instructions far back into antiquity, at least as far back into recorded history as ancient Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that maybe, sadly, these ancient records were just simple hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for food preparation.
As we move into Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts describing recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. In his works, Apicius recounts how the roman meals were separated into appetizers, main course and desserts, a very modern way of dining. This early Roman chef informs us how the ancient Romans made use of a wide range of spices, including a few that will be familiar to modern cooks for example basil, fennel and parsley. During the following few centuries, the powerful and wealthy houses competed with each other to serve up the most exotic meals, and because of this the best cooks and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that cookery and recipe books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to assembling, testing, and publishing the recipes of their peers. By the advent of the 1900s, cook books are in great demand, mostly due to higher levels of literacy, people having increased free time and being a little richer. |
We hope you enjoy this Aquarium Jell O recipe.
