Many people use the internet to find recipes, and on the list of most desired is that for the Rice Krispie treat recipe, a query that search engines like google field by the hundreds or even thousands on a daily basis. But as there are numerous variants of the basic idea, including a wide variety of possible ingredients, there is certainly no one single official Rice Krispie treat recipe that is out there but several that call for anything from caramel and marshmellows to butter and salt.
Just imagine imagine that a simple cereal prompted such creativity, but then again it is rice afterall, a food which by itself has been able to inspire chefs through the millennia. So, speaking of ye olde Rice Krispie treat recipe, let us take a look at the main ingredient involved, rice – “the food of the gods,” as Japan’s native religion of Shinto calls it.
Rice seems to have first been grown in modern-day China’s Yangtze River valley some twelve thousand years, BC. It seems to have next spread south to India, from where it went west to Africa and Europe.
Rice also spread east to Korea and Japan, in which countries, along with China, the word for a meal is “rice” itself (akin to the European synecdoche of equating “bread” with “meal,” such as in The Lord’s Prayer).
Considering its gelatinous nature when mashed, rice has been used as an ingredient to create other foods, such as pastries with sweet bean paste fillings called rice cakes by the Japanese. Another well-known dessert made of “sticky rice” is nian gao, referred to as Chinese New Year’s cake in the West.
However rice could also be puffed up, under high-pressure heat, and create one of the most popular rice-based snacks in our own part of the world, the Rice Krispie treat! Which has now grown to one of America’s most favorite snacks.
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