What is the earliest recipe in the world? What's in it?
The three clay tablets in the Babylon Antiquities Exhibition Hall of Yale University have been deciphered, and it has been confirmed that they are the recipes of Hammurabi, a great legislator around 1700 BC. This is considered to be the earliest cooking manual in the world. The dishes mentioned on the menu include stewed meat, goat mutton cooked with garlic, onion, fat oil and yogurt, stewed radish and so on. The "stewed radish" on the menu reads: no meat, add fat oil after boiling, and add onion, thorn, coriander, fennel and Calassou; Mash leeks and garlic and pour them on vegetables; Add onion and mint. The coriander here is the coriander that we often use as seasoning today. Carasu is a kind of beans, and thorns may be the unique seasoning in the two river basins.