Ingredients
2 cup vanilla wafer crumbs
6 tbsp margarine, melted
14 oz bag of kraft caramels
1 5 oz can evaporated milk
1 cup chopped pecans, toasted
2 8 oz pkgs cream cheese softened
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
1/2 cup semi sweet chocolate pieces, melted
Directions
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Servings: 6 servings
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Categories: Cheesecake; Chocolate; Chocolate Cake; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Written recipes as a concept can be found far back into antiquity, certainly as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and maybe even further. In practice though, these, ancient recipes were just basic hieroglyphic recipes for preparing meals.
In an interesting twist, the oldest recipe discovered, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a collection of ancient tablets in Sumerian describing 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 drinkers feel blissful. During the time of the Romans a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts detailing recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. In his works, he tells us how the roman meals were split into hors d`oeuvres, main course and afters, something that is very familiar to us today. He also informs us how the ancient cooks were skilled in the use of a good variety of spices, including some that we all recognise such as bay, mint and parsley. Moving our culinary historical trip onwards, we find a couple of cookery books which appeared in the 1300s : one book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, these books are not about the spicy food that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of meals eaten by the nobility of those days. Later on, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and herbs from the holy land, including spices such as basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new tastes caused a torrent in manuscripts on cookery, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. Over the succeeding few centuries, the powerful and wealthy houses competed to serve the most extravagent meals, and consequentially chefs and their collection of recipes were greatly in demand. However, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century the formal cooking and recipe publications became really popular. The Famous Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collecting, testing, and writing down the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. When we get to the 20th century, cook books are highly popular mostly as a result of better eduction, increased leisure time and being a little richer. |
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