Ingredients
24 medium shrimp
1/3 cup margarine
1/2 lemon
1 garlic clove
1 green onion
Directions
Melt butter in microwave dish. Mince garlic and finely chopped
onion. Microwave butter, garlic and onion on High for 1/2 minute. Let
stand 1 minute.
Add shrimp and juice from lemon. Microwave on High for 4 minutes,
turning and stirring shrimp a couple of times. Serve with rice pilaf.
Servings: 2 servings
Microwave Scampi Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Fish; Microwave; Seafood
The History of Recipes
Recipes as a concept can be traced back into distant history, in fact as far into history as early Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that maybe, in the main part, these ancient records were just very basic pictorial recipes for meal preparation.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which show 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 anyone who tried it feel `wonderful`. Continuing our culinary historical journey, we have some books which were published in the 14th Century ; one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another named `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these two books are nothing to do with the indian food that appears on menues today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared for the rich. Over the succeeding few hundred years, the wealthy families of Europe strove to serve up the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, cooks and their recipe collections were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the 1800s that fine cookery and recipe publications reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, devoted much of their lives to collating, trying out, and recording recipes to allow everyone to enjoy them. When we get to the twentieth century, recipe books were greatly in demand mostly as a result of more people being able to read, people having more free time and being a little richer. |
We hope you enjoy this Microwave Scampi recipe.
