What is the earliest recipe in the world, and what's in it?
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 the great legislator Hammurabi around 1700 BC. This is considered to be the earliest cooking manual in the world. The dishes mentioned in the menu include stewed meat, hill 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, spine thorn, coriander, fennel and Calassou; Mash leeks and garlic and pour them on the vegetables; Add onion and mint. The coriander here is the coriander that we often use as seasoning today, the Calassou is a kind of bean, and the spine thorn may be a unique seasoning in the two river basins.