Ingredients
1 marinade:
1 tbsp sugar
3/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup dry white wine -- or white
1 grape juice
1 fruit:
1 1/2 cup cantaloupe balls -- or cubes
1 1/2 cup blueberries
1 1/2 cup green grapes -- seedless,
1 halved
1 1/2 cup strawberries --
1 halved or whole
1 garnish:
Directions
Fresh Mint Leaves -- if desired
In small bowl, combine all marinade ingredients; mix well. In large
bowl, combine all fruit except strawberries. Pour marinade over
fruit. Cover; refrigerate 2 - 3 hrs to blend flavors, stirring
occassionally. Just before serving, gently stir in strawberries.
Garnish with mint leaves.
Makes 12 (1/2 C) servings
Servings: 12 servings
Citrus Marinated Fruit Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Fruit
The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to follow the history of transcribed cooking instructions back into the far past, in fact as far back into history as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even further. However, in the main part, these old cookbooks were just primitive pictorial recipes for meal preparation.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered so far, according to academics are a few stone tablets in the Sumerian language 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 exhilarated and blissful. Moving on, there are a couple of interesting books which date from the 14th Century : one book called `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Despite their titles, they have no connection with the indian food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of meals cooked for the rich and powerful of those days. During the next few hundred years, the powerful families of Wesstern Europe competed with each other to offer the most exotic meals, and consequentially cooks and their collection of recipes were much in demand. However, it was during the 19th century that fine cookery and cookery books reached a high level of popularity. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Farmer in the US, devoted their lives to collating, testing, and publishing the recipes that were being prepared for the better households. By the advent of the 1900s, recipe books are in great demand, mostly due to better eduction, people having more spare time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Citrus Marinated Fruit recipe.
