Ingredients
1 cup butter, soft
3 cup brown sugar
4 eggs
4 tbsp milk
3 tsp baking powder
6 cup flour
2 cup seedless raisins
2 cup currants
1 tsp nutmeg
1 cup nutmeats, chopped
1 tsp cinnamon
1 grated orange rind
Directions
Cream butter and sugar. Add milk and eggs. Sift powder with 3 cups
flour, add to creamed mix, Mix well. Add raisins, currants, nutmeats
and orange rind. Mix well. Sift spices with remaining flour. Add to
creamed mix and blend well. Drop by rounded teaspoonsful 1 to 1-1/2
inches apart onto greased cookie sheet. Bake in 375 degree F. oven
for 20 minutes, or until light brown. Cool on wire rack. Store in
airtight container. Makes about 10 dozen cookies.
From the MM database of Judi M. Phelps. jphelps@shell.portal.com,
juphelps@delphi.com, or jphelps@best.com
Servings: 10 dozen
Christmas Hermits Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Christmas; Holiday
The History of Recipes
Food historians have proved the existance of recipes far back into ancient history, at least as far back as early Egypt, and possibly even further than that. In practice though, in the main part, these ancient recipes were just primitive pictorial recipes for food preparation.
Interestingly, the most ancient recipe discovered, according to historians are a few stone tablets in Sumerian describing the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making anyone who drank it feel `exhilarated, wonderful and blissful`. As our culinary historical trip moves on a few more years we find a couple of interesting cookery books which were published in the 14th Century ; one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another titled `Curye on Inglish`. Perhaps surprisingly, these books have no connection with the spicy food that is familiar to us all today, but rather descriptions of the types of food prepared by the cooks of the rich people of that period. During the succeeding few hundred years, the families of Europe tried to serve the most extravagent banquests, and consequentially cooks and their recipe collections were greatly in demand. Nevertheless, it wasn`t until the 19th century the formal cooking and recipe books really came of age. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, dedicated the best years of their lives to collecting, testing, and recording recipes of the day. By the arrival of the 20th century, cookbooks were increasing in popularity as a result of better eduction, people having more free time and having more money. Like it or not, the introduction of television gave us celebrity chefs and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. Which pretty much brings us up to date and the invention of the internet, allowing everybody to search through massive numbers of recipes such as those found on this site. |
We hope you enjoy this Christmas Hermits recipe.
