Ingredients
1 cup cocoa
1 cup water, hot
2 cup brown sugar
1 cup molasses
1 cup shortening
2 each egg yolks
1 tsp baking soda, heaping
1 flour, to make soft dough
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp cloves
1 tsp allspice
Directions
Add hot water to cocoa and soda. Let stand while preparing other
ingredients. Cream shortening, adding sugar gradually. Add beaten egg
yolks, molasses and cocoa mixture. Sift spices with flour and add.
Roll soft as possible. Cut with cooky cutter. Bake in hot oven. Egg
whites may be used to make icing for cookies.
Note: Hot oven is 350 - 400 F.
Source: Mrs. N. C. Lee, Monroe Grange, Ashtabula County, OH
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Chocolate; Dessert
The History of Recipes
We can read the history of written recipes way back into antiquity, certainly as far back as ancient Egypt, and possibly even further. Having said that, these, old cook books were just basic hieroglyphic instructions for preparing food.
In fact, the oldest recipe discovered, according to historians are some stone tablets in ancient Sumerian which recount 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 drank it feel wonderful and blissful. Later on, there were a couple of interesting recipe books which date from the 1300s - one book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Don`t be fooled by the titles though, these have no connection with the spicy food that we all know today, but instead recipes for the types of meals served to the upper classes of the period. For the next few years, the rich and powerful families of Wesstern Europe competed with each other to lay on the most exotic meals, and consequentially cooks and their recipes were much in demand. Notwithstanding that, it wasn`t until the 19th century that fine cooking and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated their lives to assembling, verifying, and recording recipes common in their social group. By the advent of the twentieth century, cookery publications are in high demand, mostly due to better eduction, more spare time and having more money. The introduction of the TV brings us cooking programs and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of the internet, permitting everybody to search through thousands of recipes just like those on the site you are now reading. |
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