Ingredients
1 3/4 cup graham crackers crumbs
2 1/2 cup confectioners sugar
1 cup margarine, butter
1 cup peanut butter
12 oz chocolate chips
Directions
MIX EVERYTHING EXCEPT CHOCOLATE CHIPS. SPREAD IN 9X13 PAN. MELT
CHOCOLATE CHIPS AND SPREAD ON TOP OF PEANUT BUTTER MIXTURE. PUT IN
REFRIGERATOR. CUT INTO BARS BEFORE CANDY GETS TOO HARD. ABOUT 15 MIN.
COULD BE LONGER.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Candy; Chocolate; Dessert
The History of Recipes
Food historians have tracked the existance of recipes far back into the far past, at least as far as early Egypt, and maybe even further. However, mostly, these ancient recipes were just very basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing meals.
Interestingly, the oldest recipe in existence, according to experts in ancient history are a few stone tablets in ancient Sumerian which recount 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 those who drank it feel exhilarated. During Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius created a number of documents describing recipes enjoyed by his fellow Romans. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were split into hors d`oeuvre, main meal and dessert, known in latin as `Gustatio, Primae Mensae and Secundae Mensae`. Additionally, he informs us how the chefs of Roman times made use of many herbs, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs such as thyme, rue and dill. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find two interesting books which were published in the 1300s ; a book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, these are unconnected to the indian food that is served today, but rather recipes for the types of food enjoyed by the rich and wealthy people of those days. In the fifteenth century, people returning from the crusades brought back many foods and herbs from Arab cooking, including spices such as basil and coriander. These new herbs and spices caused an eruption in publications on food, some of which still exist in private libraries. During the succeeding few hundred years, the families of Europe competed with each other to serve the most extravagent meals, and as a consequence, chefs and their recipe collections increased in prestige. Even so, it wasn`t until the 19th century that fine cookery and recipe publications really came of age. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collating, verifying, and publishing recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the arrival of the 20th century, cookbooks were in high demand, mostly as a result of more people being able to read, increased leisure time and a general increase in wealth. Like it or not, the introduction of television gave us cooking programs and the demand for the accompanying recipe books. Which brings us neatly to the present day and the invention of the internet, allowing everyone to search through massive numbers of recipes like the ones you can find on the site you are now reading. |
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