Ingredients
1 each red bell pepper
1 each yellow bell pepper
1 each medium eggplant
1 olive oil
1 salt and freshly ground
1 pepper
1 each 10 inch round load crusty
1 bread
1/2 cup oregano lemon dressing
1/4 lb slice black forest ham
1/2 lb salami, preferably 2 kinds
1 lb mozzarella, sliced
20 each large fresh basil leaves
Directions
Roas whole peppers over a gas filame or under a broiler until they are
completely blackened. Place in a paper bag until cool enough to
handle.
Peel, cut in half and seed. Cut eggplant into 1/2 inch slices. Brush
with
olive oil and sear on a grill or hot skillet until brown on both
sides.
Season with salt and pepper. Cut bread in half horizontally with a
serrated knife, and hollow out the top and bottom halves. Brush
bottom half with 1/4 cup of the dressing. In the bottom half of the
bread, place the fillings in this order: ham, eggplant, one kind of
salami, peppers, mozzarella, remaining salami and basil. Brush inside
of top half with remaining dressing. Place top half onto sandwich.
Wrap sandwich tightly in waxed paper or plastic wrap. Place a tray or
baking sheet on top of the sandwich and weight it with several cans
for about 1 hour.
Servings: 4 servings
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The History of Recipes
We are able to follow the history of written recipes back into history, certainly as far into history as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and quite possibly further than that. Interesting though that maybe, in the main part, these early recipes were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for meal preparation.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe discovered so far, according to Professor Solomon Katz, is a collection of clay tablets in ancient Sumerian 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 having made people feel blissful. As we move on, there are a couple of interesting recipe books published in the fourteenth century - a recipe book entitled `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary called `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these two books are unconnected to the indian curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead descriptions of the types of food prepared for the upper classes of the period. During the following few hundred years, the wealthy families of the West competed with each other to lay on the most extravagent banquests, and because of this the best cooks and their recipes were highly sought after. Even so, it was during the nineteenth century that fine cooking and recipe books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, spent years to collating, testing, and writing down the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. By the time we get to the 1900s, cooking books were in high demand, as a result of higher levels of literacy, people having increased free time and being a little richer. |
We hope you enjoy this Circular Sandwich recipe.
