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Old Fashioned Recipes |
Most people have a warm and hazy recollection of childhood days which include favorite meals cooked by our mothers. We would sit in the ktchen watching the activties and smelling the delicious aroma of the good food to come. To us a skids, it was a kind of magic. It just happened in some way. Of course, theremust have been a recipe, but I don't remember ever seeing one. Nowadays, recipes are everywhere, often for free, but in those days they were handed down from mother to mother. In the end, someone wrote them down and recipe books were born.
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Unfortunately (or not, depending upon your point of view) modern food production has become something of a science, with too much emphasis on preservatives and taste enhancing chemicals. This is changing now, but only after the public at large becomes more and more aware of the health impact of digesting artifical substances. In this respect, the old fashioned recipes are much better. Our forebears didn't have the chemicals to add to food and store bought items were either non-existent or very expensive. Of course, you could say that there was too much grease or sugar used, but maybe that is much more preferable to chemicals that may or may not induce illness.
Aside from the obvious emotional connotations (it's easy to smell the apple pie still cooling on our grandmother's window sill) it's largely been proven that a robust and healthy basic diet, together with a good attitude towards life, brings a long healthy life. A study carried out in France recently found that the most contented people lived in the South West about 1 hour North of Toulouse. The diet consists of lots of vegetables, red meat, foie gras and red wine. The inhabitants of this region generally found little to complain about and a great well-rounded diet no doubt encourages this attitude. Needless to say, the old fashioned recipes are still used in the country areas of France to this day. Ever since the first recipe book was written in Victorian times, mankind has added recipe after recipe to the almost infinite possibilites present in the creative activity we call cooking. Fads and styles come and go - high cuisine, low calory, fat free, and the list goes on. Looking back at the olf fashiones recipes, we don't have to search far to find great food prepared in a simple way.
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