Ingredients
1 pkge. (6 oz) instant -
1 chocolate pudding mix
3 cup milk
1/2 of an 8 3/4oz. angel food-
1 cake or pound cake
1 whipped topping
1 chocolate chips, shaved
1 chocolate curls or -
1 chocolate syrup to garnish
Directions
Prepare pudding mix with milk as package directs. Allow pudding to
set. Tear cake into bite-sized pieces; place a third of pieces into
parfait glasses. Layer half of pudding over cake. Arrange remaining
cake into glasses; cover with remaining pudding. Garnish with whipped
topping and chocolate garnish. Yield: 4 servings. Source: Taste of
Home ch.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Chocolate; Dessert
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to trace the history of written cooking instructions back into antiquity, in fact as far back into recorded history as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, these, ancient records were just basic hieroglyphic instructions for preparing meals.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to experts are a few tablets in the Sumerian language 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 anyone who drank it feel exhilarated and blissful. Progressing into Roman times 25BC a man called Apicius created a number of scripts which described recipes enjoyed by his fellow Romans. In his works, he recounts how the meals of wealthy Romans were split into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. This early Roman chef recounts how the ancient cooks used a good variety of aromatic flavours, including some that we all recognise for example basil, mint and dill. Continuing our culinary historical journey, we have two interesting recipe books which were published in the 14th Century - a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another called `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these books have no connection with the spicy food that appears on menues today, but rather descriptions of the types of meals on the menus of the nobility of those days. Later on, in the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from the holy lands, including coriander, parsley, and rosemary. The introduction of these new foods and spices caused an explosion in manuscripts on cookery, some of which still exist in academic collections. When we get to the twentieth century, cooking publications were increasing in popularity as a result of better eduction, people having more leisure time and disposable income. |
We hope you enjoy this Chocolate Angel Parfait recipe.
