Ingredients
1 cup parsley, minced
1 tbsp basil
1 tsp salt
1/8 tsp white pepper
2 each garlic cloves, minced
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp boiling water
3/4 cup parmesan cheese
1 lb spaghettini
1/4 cup pignoli, minced
1/2 cup salad oil
Directions
Cook spaghetti as package directs and drain well. Combine all
ingredients in a bowl and pour over spaghetti. Finely chopped walnuts
substitute for pignoli. Serve with parmesan cheese. Leftovers can be
frozen.
Servings: 4 servings
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Categories: Italian; Pasta; Sauce
The History of Recipes
We can trace the history of `recipes` far back into antiquity, at least as far as ancient Egypt, and maybe even further. In practice though, in the main part, these ancient cookbooks were just basic pictorial, hieroglyphic or cunieform recipes for food preparation.
In fact, the oldest recipe found, according to food historians are a few clay tablets in ancient Sumerian which show the baking of bread which is then used to make a drink, quite possibly a form of beer as it is recorded as making drinkers feel exhilarated. Later on, we find two interesting books which appeared in the 1300s ; a book published under the title `Forme of Cury`, and another, similary entitled `Curye on Inglish`. The titles are a little misleading though, these two books are nothing to do with the curry that is popular today, but instead accounts of the types of food on the menues of the rich. For the next few years, the powerful and wealthy houses competed with each other to serve up the most exotic meals, and as a result chefs and their recipe collections could command a high salary. Notwithstanding that, it was during the 1800s that formal cookery and recipe collections rose to prominence. The Famous Mrs Beeton in the UK, and Fannie Farmer in the US, spent years to assembling, testing, and publishing recipes common in their social group. By the advent of the twentieth century, cook books are in high demand, mostly as a result of increased literacy, increased leisure time and having more money to spend. |
We hope you enjoy this Pesto Spaghetti recipe.
