Ancient History
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I asked chatGPT for recipes we can try at home based on dishes in the Yale Babylonian Culinary Tablets from around 1700 BCE. The tablets are notoriously vague and often just list ingredients without instruction or quantity. It gave me the following useable recipe, among others like fried chickpea patties and lentil soup:
Barley Stew with Mushrooms
Ingredients:
1 cup barley
2 cups water
2 cups sliced mushrooms
1 onion, chopped
1 garlic clove, minced
1/2 tsp. cumin
1/2 tsp. coriander
1/2 tsp. salt
2 tbsp. olive oilInstructions:
Rinse barley and soak for 30 minutes in water.
Drain barley and place it in a pot with 2 cups of water.
Bring to a boil, reduce heat to low, and simmer for 30 minutes.
In a separate pan, sauté onion and garlic in olive oil until softened.
Add sliced mushrooms and sauté for an additional 5 minutes.
Add cumin, coriander, and salt to the mushroom mixture and stir.
Add the mushroom mixture to the pot with the cooked barley and stir. Simmer the stew for an additional 10 minutes.Most of the recipes it gave me contained cumin, coriander, and garlic. It said the babylonians used those spices a lot.
Pretty interesting stuff if you like to try ancient foods.