http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191103-the-worlds-oldest-known-...

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20191103-the-worlds-oldest-known-recipes-decoded

• By Ashley Winchester

4 November 2019

...... The instructions for lamb stew read more like a list of ingredients than a bona fide recipe:

“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.”

But it’s impossible to ask the chef to reveal the missing pieces:
This recipe’s writer has been dead for some 4,000 years.


Cheers,