Ingredients
3 lb corned beef
6 carrots, cut in half,
1 lengthwise
6 potatoes, cut in half,
1 lengthwise
1 medium size head of cabbage
3 cup water
6 turnips, cut in quarters
Directions
Place corned beef and water in Crock Pot Cooker.Cover.Set on high.When
steaming vigorously,set to medium and continue cooking 2 1/2 hours.
Remove meat from cooker.Put potatoes, turnips,carrots and cabbage in
Cooker.Place meat on top of vegetables.Cover and when mixture is
steaming briskly,set to medium.Cook for 45 minutes. Ham may be used
in place of corned beef,if desired.
Servings: 8 servings
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The History of Recipes
Recipes as a concept can be observed far back into history, certainly as far back into history as pharonic Egypt, and maybe even further. In practice though, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for food preparation.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to historians are a few clay tablets in ancient Sumerian which recount the preparation of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making drinkers feel `blissful`. Progressing into The time of the roman empire around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote a few documents detailing recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his publication, Apicius describes how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. He also recounts how the ancient chefs made use of a wide range of spices and herbs, including a few you will know like basil, rue and asafoetida. In the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and spices from middle-east cuisine, including spices such as parsley and basil. These new culinary innovations caused an explosion in manuscripts on food, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. Over the following few centuries, the powerful and wealthy competed to serve the most extravagent meals, and because of this chefs and their recipe collections were greatly in demand. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the 19th century that formal cookery and recipe publications really came of age. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated years of their lives to assembling, testing, and writing down recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. When we get to the 1900s, cook books were highly popular as a result of higher levels of literacy, increased leisure time and having more money. |
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