Ingredients
1 tsp cinnamon, ground
1 tsp baking powder
4 cup flour
1/4 cup oil
1 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
1 cup water
1 each sugar & cinnamon mixture
Directions
From : SAM WARING
Sift all dry ingredients together. Slowly add water and a little
oil. Turn onto a lightly floured board and knead until dough is
smooth and elastic. Divide into about 40 small balls; roll out into
approximately 4" to 6" circles. Fry in very hot oil (hot and deep)
until delicately browned on both sides. Drain on paper towels and
sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixed.
~-- Eats, a Folk History of Texas Foods by Linck and Roach
Servings: 6 servings
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The History of Recipes
It is quite possible to track the history of transcribed cooking instructions far back into antiquity, certainly as far back into recorded history as ancient Egypt, and possibly even further than that. However, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe found, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are some clay 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 having made drinkers feel `wonderful`. Progressing into The time of the romans around 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote some scripts detailing recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. In his publication, Apicius tells us how the meals were divided into appetizers, main meal and desserts, something that is very familiar to us today. He also tells us how the Roman cooks were skilled in the use of many aromatic flavours, including some that we all recognise for example basil, mint and asafoetida. Moving on, we find a couple of cookery books which date from the 14th Century : one book titled `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Surprisingly, these two books have no connection with the spicy food that appears on menues today, but instead recipes for the types of food prepared for the nobility of that period. Later, in the 15th century, people returning from the crusades brought back a variety of spices and herbs from the East, such as parsley, basil and rosemary. These new foods and spices led to an explosion in books on cooking, some of which are kept safe in private collections. By the advent of the 1900s, cook books are highly popular mostly due to increased literacy, more free time and being a little richer. Like it or not, the introduction of TV gave us TV cooks and the recipe books that accompanied them. And that neatly brings us to the present day and the invention of computers and the internet, permitting us all to access massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on our site. |
We hope you enjoy this Christmas Bunuelos recipe.
