Ingredients
3 cup water
1/2 cup cornstarch food coloring
Directions
Blend 1 cup water with cornstarch. Add 2 more cups and zap on high
8-9 minutes, or till thickened, stirring every 2 minutes. Pour 1/2 c
into each of 6 small bowls. Add 3 drops food coloring each bowl.
(Food coloring may stain hands.) Atlanta Journal/Constitution Dec 31,
1993
typed by Rodney
Servings: 1 servings
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The History of Recipes
We can track the history of written recipes far back into antiquity, in fact as far into history as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. However, sadly, these old cookbooks were just simple pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
In fact, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to historians are some stone 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 wonderful and blissful. Progressing into Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts showing how to cook the recipes cooked by wealthy Romans. In his works, Apicius describes how the meals were divided into hors d`oeuvres, main course and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. Additionally, he informs us how the cooks of Roman times were skilled in the use of many different aromatic flavors, including many that are still in use today for example basil, mint and dill. Later on in the 1400s, people returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and spices from middle-east cuisine, including spices like parsley and basil. These new herbs and spices created an increase in cookery books, some of which are now in private collections. For the next few years, the powerful and wealthy houses strove to serve up the most extravagent meals, and because of this the best chefs and their recipe collections were greatly in demand. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century the formal cooking and recipe publications rose to prominence. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes common in their social group. By the advent of the twentieth century, cook books are greatly in demand as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having increased spare time and having more money. |
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