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A History of Food in 100 Recipes
William Sitwell
The ingredients, cooks, techniques and tools that have shaped our love of food.We all love to eat and most of us have a favourite ingredient or dish. In today's world we can get the food we want, when we want it, but how many of us really know where our much-loved recipes come from, who invented them and how they were originally cooked? In this book William Sitwell, culinary expert on BBC2's 'A Question of Taste' and editor of Waitrose Kitchen magazine, takes us on a colourful, whirlwind journey as he explores the fascinating history of cuisine.This book is a celebration of the great dishes, techniques and above all brilliant cooks who have, over the centuries, created the culinary landscape we now enjoy. Any lover of fine food who has ever wondered about the origins of the methods and recipes we now take for granted will find A History of Food in 100 Recipes required reading. As well as shining a light on food's glorious past, there are contributions from a glittering array of stars of British cuisine, including Marco Pierre White, Delia Smith, Heston Blumenthal, Nigella Lawson and Jamie Oliver.In an incisive and humorous narrative, Sitwell enters an Egyptian tomb to reveal the earliest recipe for bread and discovers the greatest party planner of the Middle Ages. He uncovers the extraordinary and poetic roots of the roast dinner and tells the heart-rending story of the forgotten genius who invented the pressure cooker. And much, much more.
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Introduction
A note on the recipes
1 – Ancient Egyptian bread, 1958–1913 BC
2 – Kanasu broth (Meat and vegetable stew), circa 1700 BC
3 – Tiger nut sweets, circa 1400 BC
4 – Fish baked in fig leaves, 350 BC
5 – To salt ham, 160 BC
6 – Roast goat, 30 BC
7 – Another sauce for fowl, AD 10
8 – Honeyed cheesecakes, circa AD 200
9 – Congee, AD 636
10 – Dried fish, circa AD 800
11 – Manchet bread, circa 1070
12 – Pasta, 1154
13 – Rummaniyya (Meatballs in pomegranate sauce), 1250
14 – Pear of pies, 1379
15 – Erbolate (Baked eggs with herbs), 1390
16 – Green porray, 1392
17 – Party planning, 1420
18 – Muscules in shelle (Mussels in white wine sauce), 1440
19 – Lese fryes (Cheese tart), circa 1450
20 – Ravioli for non-Lenten times, 1465
21 – For to bake quinces, 1500
22 – Hippocras jelly, 1530
23 – Turkey tomales, circa 1540
24 – Hot chocolate, 1568
25 – To prepare a thick broth called zabaglione, 1570
26 – Earth apples (Potatoes fried and simmered with bacon bits), 1581
27 – Trifle, 1596
28 – Prince-biskets (Prince biscuits), 1602
29 – To butter crawfish, 1604
30 – An Englishman discovers the fork, 1611
31 – Spargus with white sauce, 1651
32 – A good supper dish (Mutton baked in breadcrumbs), 1664
33 – Peas soope, 1669
34 – Roast fillet of beef, 1671
35 – Fish experiment XIII, 1681
36 – Tomato sauce in the Spanish style, 1692
37 – Salad dressing, 1699
38 – Ice cream, 1718
39 – Puff past (Puff pastry), 1739
40 – Little foie gras pastries with truffles, 1740
41 – A Yorkshire pudding, 1747
42 – To make chip marmalade, 1783
43 – Sandwiches, 1787
44 – A buttered apple pie, 1796
45 – Soufflé, 1816
46 – Spring fruit pudding, 1817
47 – Pheasant Brillat-Savarin, 1825
48 – Cupcake, 1828
49 – Petits soufflés à la rose, 1833
50 – Brussels sprouts, 1845
51 – Kedgeree or kidgeree, an Indian breakfast dish, 1845
52 – Welsh rarebit, 1852
53 – Cauliflower & cheese, 1860
54 – Roly-poly jam pudding, 1861
55 – Eggs à la Benedick, 1894
56 – Hollandaise sauce, 1895
57 – Strawberry shortcake, 1896
58 – Preparation of peas, 1902
59 – Peach Melba, 1903
60 – Scotch barley broth, 1907
61 – Onion butter sauce, 1908
62 – Croque monsieur, 1915
63 – Chocolate cake, 1916
64 – Spaghetti à la Campbell, 1916
65 – Creamed mushrooms, 1919
66 – Strawberry ice-cream soda 1927
67 – Toad-in-the-hole, 1927
68 – Quick oatmeal cookies, 1931
69 – Omelette, 1937
70 – Elderberry & apple jam, 1940
71 – French creamed oysters, 1941
72 – Rice Krispies treats, 1941
73 – Victoria sandwich cake, 1948
74 – Cassoulet toulousain, 1950
75 – Syrup tart, 1950
