Ingredients
1 package yeast
3 1/4 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cup milk
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp corn oil
1 cup toasted chopped pecans
Directions
Place ingredients in breadmaker. Process on white bread cycle. Any
nut can be substituted for pecans.
They don't really need to be chopped before placing in the
breadmaker. Sometimes I need to add extra flour to this recipe. As
always oat flour is a fine preservative and your bread will keep
longer.
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Bread; Bread Machine; Breadmaker; Breads; Nut
The History of Recipes
Historians have traced the existence of recipes way back into ancient history, at least as far back into recorded history as early Egypt, and quite possibly further than that. In practice though, mostly, these ancient recipes were just primitive hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for preparing meals.
Fascinatingly, the oldest recipe discovered, according to Professor Solomon Katz, are a few stone 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 making drinkers feel blissful and exhilarated. Progressing into The time of the romans 25BC a man called Apicius compiled some scripts describing recipes prepared by his fellow Romans. He describes how the meals were divided into appetizers, entrees and afters, a very modern way of dining. Additionally, he describes how the early Romans made use of a good variety of herbs, including a few you will know such as bay, rue and asafoetida. As our culinary historical trip moves to more modern times we have a couple of interesting books which appeared in the fourteenth century : a recipe book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another entitled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books have no connection with the spicy food that we all know today, but instead accounts of the types of food on the menus of the rich and powerful of the time. In the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought us many foods and herbs from the holy lands, including spices like basil and rosemary. The introduction of these new tastes created an outbreak in cookery books, the majority of which are kept safe in private cookery archives. Over the following few centuries, the rich families of Europe competed with each other to serve up the most extravagent meals, and consequentially the best chefs and their collection of recipes were highly sought after. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s the formal cooking and cookery books became popular. Mrs Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the USA, dedicated the best years of their lives to collecting, verifying, and publishing recipes for their fellow cooks to enjoy. By the arrival of the 20th century, cook books are greatly in demand due to higher levels of literacy, people having increased spare time and having more money. |
We hope you enjoy this Pecan Bread recipe.
