Ingredients
2 each medium baking potatoes
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1/4 tsp salt
Directions
PREHEAT OVEN TO 450 F. CUT POTATOES INTO 1/4" STICKS. SPRAY COOKIE
SHEET WITH NO-STICK COOKING SPRAY. TOSS POTATOES WITH OIL. ARRANGE IN
A SINGLE LAYER ON COOKIE SHEET. BAKE, TOSSING OCCASIONALLY. SPRINKLE
WITH SALT.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: French; Potato; Vegetable
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of written recipes back into the far past, in truth as far back as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even further. However, mostly, these ancient recipes were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few ancient tablets in Sumerian which describe the making 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. During Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled some scripts which described recipes cooked by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were split into appetizers, entrees and afters, a style of dining still practiced today. This early Roman chef recounts how the cooks of Roman times used a wide range of spices, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs for example bay, fennel and parsley. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years there were two interesting recipe books dating from the fourteenth century : one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these two books are nothing to do with the spicy food that is popular today, but instead descriptions of the types of food on the menues of the rich people of that time. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought us many new foods, spices and herbs from Arab cuisine, including spices like parsley, basil and rosemary. These new herbs and spices led to a surge in cookery books, many of which are kept safe in academic collections. Over the following few centuries, the powerful and wealthy competed with each other to lay on the best banquets, and consequentially chefs and their recipe collections were much in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the 1800s that haute cuisine and recipe collections reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted their lives to assembling, trying out, and recording recipes to help cooks of their time. When we get to the 1900s, cookbooks are in high demand, due to better eduction, leisure time and having more disposable income. The arrival of TV gave us cooking programs and the spin-off recipe books. And that pretty much brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting everybody to access thousands of recipes just like those on sites such as the one you are reading now. |
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