Ingredients
5 large potatoes, cooked and diced
6 slices bacon, cooked and crumbled
1 1/2 lb shredded cheddar cheese
1 pt sour cream
2 bunches chopped green onions (saute, ed in bacon grease
1 salt and pepper to taste
Directions
Mix all ingredients. Pour into casserole and bake 30 minutes at 325 .
Serves 10-12.
Servings: 10 servings
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Categories: Casserole; Main Dish; Potato; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to trace the history of written cooking instructions far back into the far past, at least as far back into history as the early Egyptians, and maybe further still. Interesting though that is, these, old cookbooks were just primitive pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to food historians is a series of clay tablets in the Sumerian language which recount the making of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making people feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. Moving on, we find a couple of interesting books dating from the 14th Century - a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they are nothing to do with the spicy food that is served today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared by the chefs of the rich people of that time. Later, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought us many spices and herbs from middle-east cuisine, including coriander, basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new culinary ideas was responsible for an outbreak in cookery books, some of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. During the following few centuries, the families of Europe competed with each other to offer the most exotic banquets, and because of this the best cooks and their recipes could command a high salary. However, it was during the 1800s the formal cooking and recipe publications became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to collating, trying out, and writing down recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the advent of the 1900s, cookbooks were in great demand, mostly due to higher levels of literacy, people having more leisure time and having more money to spend. The revolution that is television brings us TV cookery programs and the accompanying recipe books. And that brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, allowing everyone to access massive numbers of recipes like those on our web site. |
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