Aren't recipes strange lads

Neon_Lights

Like take merengues for example, **** a load of sugar in eggs, beat the ****e out of them until you can throw them over your head, then throw them in the oven.

Who would of thought to do all that in the first place?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Ok, but merengue is a dance. Meringues are eggs and sugar.

The Satanist

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Who would of thought to do all that in the first place?

Robert D. Meringue in 1848 as it happens.

Samuri Suicide

About them vegan recipes lads.

Yawn

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

The Satanist wrote: »

Robert D. Meringue in 1848 as it happens.

Some say it originates in the Swiss village of Meiringen and improved by an Italian chef named Gasparini at the end of the 17th century.

BrokenArrows

Who thought to mix cow blood and oats together and then fry it. Umm sounds delicious.

FFred

This thread has all the ingredients to be a good one, but it batter not fall flat as a pancake.

Snotty

Pretty much all of really successful and profitable cooking is either adding sugar or salt to something. I'm sure plenty of chefs have added sugar to something and immediately regretted it too.

endacl

Who discovered you could get milk out of a cow, and what did he think he was doing?!?

SEPT 23 1989

Neon_Lights wrote: »

Who would of thought to do all that in the first place?

probably someone was wasnt stoned out their mind at one o clock on a Wednesday afternoon

Guill

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Who thought to mix cow blood and oats together and then fry it. Umm sounds delicious.

Things like this and Offal in general probably originated in a necessity to survive situation.

If you look at spuds. Originally they were all poisonous and the South American would hike up mountains in order to leave them to sun dry which killed the toxins. How the hell did someone figure that out??

And flour. Tat took some doing and bread is a round a very long time now.

amcalester

Snotty wrote: »

Pretty much all of really successful and profitable cooking is either adding sugar or salt to something. I'm sure plenty of chefs have added sugar to something and immediately regretted it too.

And when it's not sugar or salt, it's butter.

Neon_Lights

Like putting blood in pudding madness

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Who thought of cooking at all?

Deebles McBeebles

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

probably someone was wasnt stoned out their mind at one o clock on a Wednesday afternoon

Ah to be young again...

Boom_Bap

Whoever was the first person to decide to eat a chickens egg is a f*cking oddball.

biko

The first recipe was probably just mixing two kind of berries together.

Neon_Lights wrote: »

would of thought

*would have thought

Deebles McBeebles

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Whoever was the first person to decide to eat a chickens egg is a f*cking oddball.

The original fetish perhaps? Mmmmmm.

biko wrote: »

*would have thought

Your better then that.

Badly Drunk Boy

Boom_Bap wrote: »

Whoever was the first person to decide to eat a chickens egg is a f*cking oddball.

I'm sure people observed animals and birds robbing the eggs of other birds and saw that they must be doing it to survive, a nice glob of protein, so tried it themselves. I'm sure experimentation led to a preference of which birds' eggs were nicest/easiest to get.

endacl wrote: »

Who discovered you could get milk out of a cow, and what did he think he was doing?!?

Again back in prehistory, babies suckled their mother's teats for sustenance, and young animals did the same from their mothers so when times were desperate, it probably wasn't a huge leap. Again, I'm sure there was trial and error as to which animals to use.

topper75

BrokenArrows wrote: »

Who thought to mix cow blood and oats together and then fry it. Umm sounds delicious.

Because that was all that was in the press at the time and they weren't arsed to get dressed.

A star is born.

Outlaw Pete

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Who thought of cooking at all?

The guy (or gal) that first produced fire must have scared the s***e out of themselves.

Most likely they were seen as a witch of some sort and burnt at the stake.

No wait......

mad muffin

I wish we still ate raw meat off the bone…

Pherekydes

Who was the genius who decided to combine sodium and chlorine and then make it so that no one can live without it?

TheMilkyPirate

endacl wrote: »

Who discovered you could get milk out of a cow, and what did he think he was doing?!?

Gonna go out on a limb here and guess that whoever it was observed a calf feeding from the mother.

Bread is one that always gets me given the work it takes to get the ingredients for it. Who invented bread?

Pherekydes

Deleted User wrote: »

Bread is one that always gets me given the work it takes to get the ingredients for it. Who invented bread?

Brennan! :pac:

Boom_Bap

Pherekydes wrote: »

Brennan! :pac:

It was Mooney, Johnson and O'Brien are clinger ons.

topper75

Deleted User wrote: »

Bread is one that always gets me given the work it takes to get the ingredients for it. Who invented bread?

Easy - the guy who was asked to throw out the wet grain because some yeast culture was growing in it.
He threw it in the fire but some of it rolled out shortly afterwards, and before he chucked it back in again he thought he might taste some.

The guy's name, one Jeremiah Pádraig Quincy-McFetridge. Too unwieldy to become a household name, we now simply call it bread.

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Outlaw Pete wrote: »

The guy (or gal) that first produced fire must have scared the s***e out of themselves.

Most likely they were seen as a witch of some sort and burnt at the stake.

No wait......

Absolutely.

I reckon they discovered cooking by animal carcasses getting dried out in the sun.