Ingredients
3 cup cold water
1 cup am multi blend flour
1 pinch sea salt (optional)
2 tbsp honey
1/4 cup raisins or dried fruit
1/4 tsp cinnamon or nutmeg
Directions
Mix all ingredients in a heavy saucepan. Stir until lumps are gone.
Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until porridge bubbles.
Turn off heat. Stir to desired thickness. Serve plain or top with
milk, fruit butter or favorite topping. Makes 3 large servings.
Source: Arrowhead Mills "Multi Blend Flour Recipes" tri-fold
Reprinted by permission of Arrowhead Mills, Inc. Electronic format
courtesy of: Karen Mintzias
Servings: 3 servings
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The History of Recipes
We are able to follow the history of written recipes back into the far past, in fact as far as the Egypt of the Pharoahs, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, sadly, these ancient cookbooks were just primitive pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for food preparation.
The truth of the matter is, the most ancient recipe found, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few ancient tablets in ancient Sumerian which show the making 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 tried it feel wonderful and blissful. As we move on, we have a couple of books published in the 14th Century : one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these books have no connection with the curry that is familiar to us all today, but instead accounts of the types of food prepared for the upper classes of that period. Later, in the fifteenth century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from the Middle-East, including parsley, basil and rosemary. These new spices and herbs caused an outbreak in manuscripts on cooking, most of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. During the following few hundred years, the rich families of Wesstern Europe strove to lay on the most extravagent banquests, and as a result the best cooks and their collection of recipes were greatly in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the 1800s that cooking and recipe books reached a high level of popularity. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally famous Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collating, testing, and writing down recipes that were common in the better off homes of the day. By the time we get to the 1900s, cooking publications are starting to become popular as a result of increased literacy, people having more leisure time and being a little richer. The arrival of television brings us celebrity TV chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. And that 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 this site. |
We hope you enjoy this Prophet's Porridge~ Quick Cooking recipe.
