4 ms·
I'm basing it on personal experience, with grandparents and further back recipes. I don't think something like avocados even existed here, or any type of spicy
by axaxs 5y ago
I'm basing it on personal experience, with grandparents and further back recipes.
I don't think something like avocados even existed here, or any type of spicy pepper.
I'm a spicehead, and nothing has any at all. Or much say, umami. Meat and potatoes. Meat and green beans. Add salt or bland spice, if you're lucky. It's basically all I ate growing up.
Today I can buy Nashville hot spice in a can, for example.
I'm sure you can find examples of some things existing in some places. But the silk road didn't run through rural midwest.
Edit to add:
Speaking of avocados, and complex favors...imagine a perfect guacamole. With avocados, and spicy peppers, garlic, onion, etc. Does a recipe exist for such a thing before say, 1960?
- steaknsteak 5y agoIn regards to your edit, avocados and chili peppers both originate in Mexico. Guacamole was a native dish so it's been around for centuries, but the modern version with onions and cilantro couldn't have existed until the Spanish brought those ingredients to Mexico
- axaxs 5y agoExcellent points, but at what time would all of that been written in English and American measurements for American consumers, with ingredients available? I only guessed 1960s, but it very well could have been decades later.
- horns4lyfe 5y agoWho makes guacamole with an exact recipe? You don’t need precise measurements for a recipe like that, and if you do you’re doing it wrong.