Ingredients
2 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup butter
1 pinch salt
3 sticks cinnamon
6 whole cloves
1/2 tsp nutmeg
2 cup rum
1 heavy cream, whipped
1 nutmeg
Directions
Put all ingredients, except rum and cream, and nutmeg into crockpot.
Add 2 quarts hot water. Stir well. Cover pot and cook on LOW for 5
hours. Add rum; stir to blend. Serve from pot in warm mugs with a
scoop of whipped cream and a dusting of nutmeg.
Servings: 15 servings
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Categories: Alcohol; Beverages
The History of Recipes
Written cooking instructions as a concept can be tracked way back into ancient history, in truth as far back into recorded history as pharonic Egypt, and potentially, even further back. However, in the main part, these ancient cook books were just very simple pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform instructions for preparing food.
In an interesting twist, the most ancient recipe found, according to historians are a few ancient tablets in the Sumerian language which describe 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 drank it feel `blissful`. Later on, in The time of the romans 25BC a man called Apicius compiled some scripts which described recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. He describes how the meals of wealthy Romans were separated into appetizers, main meal and dessert, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius informs us how the early Romans were skilled in the use of a good variety of herbs and spices, including many that are still in use today like basil, fennel and asafoetida. Later on, in the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many new foods and spices from the Middle-East, including spices like coriander, basil and rosemary. These new herbs and spices led to an explosion in manuscripts on food, some of which still exist in academic collections. Over the succeeding few centuries, the rich families of Europe tried to serve the most extravagent banquests, and as a result the best chefs and their recipes were greatly in demand. Nevertheless, it was during the 19th century that formal cookery and recipe publications became really popular. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, devoted much of their lives to collecting, verifying, and recording recipes to help cooks of their time. When we get to the 20th century, recipe books were increasing in popularity as a result of increased literacy, people having increased leisure time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Colonial Hot Buttered Rum recipe.
