Ingredients
3/4 cup crisco, butter flavored
1 1/4 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
2 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
1 egg
1 3/4 cup flour
1 tsp salt
3/4 tsp baking soda
1 cup milk choc. chips (can -substitute s, emi-sweet)
1 cup walnuts or pecans, chopped
Directions
Heat over to 375. Cream crisco, brown sugar, milk and vanilla.
Blend till creamy. Blend in egg. Combine flour, salt, and soda. Add
to creamed mixture. Gradually add chips and nuts. Drop rounded
tablespoons of dough on ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 375 for 8-10
minutes. Do not overbake.
Servings: 36 servings
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Categories: Chocolate; Cookie; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Transcribed cooking instructions as an idea can be found way back into history, at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that is, in the main part, these old recipes were just very basic pictorial instructions for preparing food.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to food historians are some ancient 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 making anyone who tried it feel `wonderful`. Progressing into Roman times 25BC a roman called Apicius compiled a collection of scripts describing recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, he tells us how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into hors d`oeuvres, main course and desserts, a style of dining still practiced today. Additionally, he informs us how the cooks of his times were skilled in the use of many spices and herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs like basil, mint and asafoetida. Later on, we have a couple of recipe books which appeared in the fourteenth century - one book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, they have no connection with the curry that is served today, but instead accounts of the types of meals on the menus of the rich and wealthy people of that period. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought us a variety of foods and herbs from the Middle-East, including spices like coriander, parsley, and rosemary. These new foods and spices was responsible for an explosion in manuscripts on cooking, the majority of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. By the advent of the twentieth century, cooking publications are highly popular mostly as a result of increased literacy, people having increased leisure time and having more money. |
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