Ingredients
3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, sof, tened
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 cup flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2/3 cup coarsely ground pecans
Directions
Heat oven to 350'. Cream butter and sugar in large mixing bowl until
well blended. Beat in egg and vanilla until mixed. Using a wooden
spoon, stir in flour, baking powder and baking soda until mixed. Stir
in pecans.
Drop by spoonfuls onto lightly greased baking sheets. Bake until
golden and firm on the top, about 10 minutes. Cool on wire rack.
Di Note: Good cookie to have with coffee after everyone has gone
home, the dishes are done and you finally get to sit down.
Di Pahl's personal recipes-1994
Servings: 1 1/2 dozen
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The History of Recipes
It is quite feasible to trace the history of recipes way back into the far past, certainly as far as pharonic Egypt, and maybe further still. Interesting though that maybe, sadly, these old cookbooks were just very basic pictorial instructions for preparing food.
The truth of the matter is, the oldest recipe discovered, according to food historians is a series of tablets in 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 making those who drank it feel `wonderful`. As we move into Roman times around 25BC a roman called Apicius assembled a collection of documents detailing recipes prepared by wealthy roman citizens. In his scrolls, Apicius describes how the roman meals were separated into starters, main course and dessert, something that is very familiar to us today. Aspicius recounts how the Roman chefs made use of many different spices, including some that we all recognise like basil, rue and asafoetida. Moving on, we have a couple of cookery books which were published in the 14th Century : a book called `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary titled `Curye on Inglish`. Amusingly, they are not about the indian food that appears on menues today, but instead recipes for the types of meals enjoyed by the rich people of that period. Later, in the 15th century, knights returning from the crusades brought back a variety of foods and spices from the holy land, including basil and rosemary. These new spices and herbs was responsible for an increase in recipe publications, some of which are kept safe in private libraries. The revolution that is television brings us TV cooks and the demand for the spin-off recipe books. And that brings us to the present day and the internet revolution, allowing us all to search through massive numbers of recipes like those on this recipe site. |
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