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Posted on 04/27/2025 5:24:43 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Cooking how-to videos, recipe blogs and mass-produced cookbooks may be relatively recent inventions, but our ancestors liked to cook, too. Archaeologists have found remnants of food resembling our own all over the world, from traces of burnt porridge on Stone Age pots to "beer loaves" of bread in ancient Egypt. Yet, for much of history, cooking was an art passed down orally and not often documented in writing.
So what's the oldest known recipe?
The answer hails back to one of the oldest civilizations, although their recipes look a little different from the ones we see today...
In fact, what we now know as the "oldest recipes" weren't identified as such for a long time. When four Babylonian clay tablets arrived at Yale University in the early 1900s, archaeologists struggled to translate the cuneiform script they contained. The tablets, each about the size of an iPad mini, hailed back to about 1730 B.C., and were written in what is now southern Iraq...
In the 1980s, archaeologist Jean Bottéro confirmed the Babylonian tablets were actually recipes. Still, he declared the food described on the tablets as inedible. It wasn't until recently that any of the recipes were revisited...
They found that the tablets contained instructions for broths, a pie stuffed with songbird, green wheat, 25 types of vegetarian and meat-based stews, and some sort of small, cooked mammal. In many ways, the recipes resembled modern-day food from Iraq, with ingredients such as lamb and cilantro. But they also included some ingredients that might offend some palates, such as blood and cooked rodents...
One read, "Meat is used. You prepare water. You add fine-grained salt, dried barley cakes, onion, Persian shallot, and milk. You crush and add leek and garlic."
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
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What is?
Probably something like honey and water.
A pie stuffed with songbird. Yum.
This a fun one, but some of the recipes are a bit dangerous.
https://www.amazon.com/Sip-Through-Time-Collection-Brewing/dp/0962859834
“A Sip Through Time, A Collection of Old Brewing Recipes contains, in a single illustrated volume, over 400 documented historic recipes for ale, beer, mead, metheglin, cider, perry, hypocras, wines, etc., dating from 1800 B.C. to modern times.”
In making beer, recipes are only needed by those who have had too much beer.
One Bourbon
One Scotch
One Beer
Mammoth Flambe..............
Fermented beverages are the winner here. More than 5,000 years old.
Kill animal, skin and gut animal, roast animal for a while over magical hot stuff that burn and enjoy.
Ask You Tuber Max Miller.
I love his YouTube channel Tasting History, and his cookbook.
Potion number 9
In some cases closer to 10,000. Some archeologists even think that the impetus to grow cereal grains (aka agriculture) came from a desire to make beer.
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Ice cubes?
squirrel tartare
Eye of newt and toe of frog...
Where are the Jalapeno’s on a stick? smile
Great cartoons.
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