Ingredients
2 cup sugar
2 tbsp vinegar
2 tbsp karo, white
1 butter, size of walnut
1/4 tsp salt
1 soda, pinch
Directions
Boil sugar, vinegar, syrup and butter with a little water until it
forms soft ball in cold water. Sift a little salt on freshly popper
corn. Add pinch of soda to syrup just before pouring over corn. Wet
handls with water before pressing each ball to prevent sticking.
Source: Mrs. Henry Bailey, Rock Springs Grange, Meigs County, OH
Servings: 1 servings
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Categories: Appetizer
The History of Recipes
It is possible to read the history of meal recipes far back into history, at least as far as the ancient Egyptians, and maybe even further. Interesting though that maybe, generally, these ancient cook books were just very basic pictorial instructions for preparing meals.
In fact, the oldest recipe found, according to academics are a few stone tablets in 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 having made those who drank it feel blissful. Later on, in The time of the roman empire 25BC a roman called Apicius wrote a number of scripts describing recipes enjoyed by wealthy roman citizens. In his publication, he describes how the meals were separated into hors d`oeuvre, main course and dessert, a very modern way of dining. This early Roman chef describes how the Romans made use of many herbs and spices, including a few that will be familiar to modern chefs like bay, rue and asafoetida. For the decades that followed, the powerful and rich houses competed with each other to serve up the most exotic banquets, and as a result chefs and their recipes were much in demand. Even so, it wasn`t until the nineteenth century that fine cookery and cookery books became popular. Mrs Isabella Beeton in the UK, and the equally well-known Fannie Merritt Farmer in the US, dedicated years of their lives to collecting, verifying, and publishing recipes to allow everyone to enjoy them. By the time we get to the 1900s, cook books were in high demand, mostly due to increased literacy, leisure time and having more disposable income. |
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