Ingredients
2 cup all-purpose flour
2 cup granulated sugar
1 cup margarine
1 cup coca-cola
3 tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup buttermilk
2 eggs, beaten
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch baking pan.
In large mixing bowl, combine flour and sugar; set aside.
In small, heavy saucepan, bring margarine, cola and cocoa to boil;
pour ovr flour and sugar and mix thoroughly. Add buttermilk, eggs,
baking soda, vanilla and miniature marshmallows.
Pour into prepared pan and bak 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted
into center comes out clean. While cake bakes, prepare Coca-Cola
Frosting (you will be frosting the cake while it is still hot).
Assorted recipes from the Detroit News, entered by Diane Pahl
Servings: 12 servings
Coca-Cola Cake (Tdn) Recipe brought to you by Recipe Ideas
Categories: Cake; Dessert
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of written recipes back into distant history, in truth as far back as pharonic Egypt, and possibly even further than that. Interesting though that maybe, these, old records were just simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing food.
In fact, the most ancient recipe in existence, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few tablets in 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 making anyone who drank it feel blissful and exhilarated. Later on, in Roman times around 25BC a man called Apicius compiled some documents which described recipes cooked by his fellow Romans. In his works, Apicius tells us how the roman meals were separated into hors d`oeuvres, main meal and desserts, something that is very familiar to us today. Additionally, he tells us how the cooks of Roman times were skilled in the use of a wide range of spices, including some familiar names for example thyme, rue and parsley. Later on, we have two books which were published in the 14th Century - one book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Although the titles sound familiar, these books are unconnected to the indian curry that appears on menues today, but rather accounts of the types of food served to the upper classes. Later on in the 1400s, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from Arab countries, such as coriander, parsley, and basil. The introduction of these new herbs and spices created an eruption in recipe books, some of which still exist in private cookery archives. By the advent of the twentieth century, recipe books were starting to become popular as a result of more people being able to read, people having more free time and being a little richer. |
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