Cuisine blogs, books and videos are recent inventions, but our ancestors also like to cook. Archaeologists often find the rest of prehistoric food around the world, from porridge of stone to bread in ancient Egypt. Livescience.com information portal speak About the oldest recipes found by archaeologists.
Although modern recipes cannot be confused with anything, to determine a formula in an ancient historical document – a difficult test for archaeologists. In fact, it is the concept of the Viking people's formula that is a modern invention.
Ancient instructions for food preparation not only only gram or proportional in the same way as the current people. The exact recipes only appeared in the past centuries. In addition, ancient medical drugs often contain ingredients, sometimes very difficult to understand what is described in medical instructions or documents. Not to mention the fact that some words from ancient recipes cannot be monitored, while other words refer to the no longer existing.
Archaeologists have discovered documents that can be considered an ancient recipes, relatively recently. In 1900, the four signatures of Babylon wedge -shaped size of the iPad Mini went to Yale University. They were the 1730 BC. And written on the territory of the current southern region of Iraq, but scientists cannot translate them. Only in 1945, researcher Mary Hassi said that recipes were recorded on signs, but colleagues only mocked her – they were sure they had encountered fake metallic or medical documents.
In the 1980s, archaeologists finally confirmed that these signs actually recorded recipes for dishes. Indeed, at first, the food was described in the documents that seem unable to eat: scientists must spend a lot of time and resources to repeat recipes and choose an alternative to the inactive ingredients to determine.
In total, scientists have found instructions to prepare broth, a recipe for poultry and fricks, 25 vegetarian dishes and stew, as well as a small mammal dish. The ancient recipes largely similar to the modern kitchen of Iraq – for example, lamb and coriander are often found between ingredients. But some other ingredients, such as blood and gnawing, will not like everyone.
Although on a more detailed tablet with grams recorded, many Babylon's recipes describe the cooking process in a very common term. Prepare meat, cook water. Add salt, dry herbs, onions, Persian shawls and milk. Crush and add onions and garlic.