In order to study the words written by ancestors, an international research group was set up to study the words of recipes. This cookbook, written more than 4000 years ago, was carved on several pieces of pottery. When they succeeded in deciphering the words on the pottery, they were sure that these recipes must belong to ancient Babylon.
These terracotta lands were excavated and now cover Syria, Iraq and Turkey. So I think only an internationally renowned university like Yale University can preserve these pottery fragments to avoid being damaged in the competition. There are four pieces of these pottery pieces, three of which were made in about 1700 BC, and the other looks like 700 BC.
There are 25 kinds of food ingredients recorded on pottery tablets, only a few of which specifically describe the production method, and more are just the preparation of some ingredients. It is reported that these pottery pieces record the vegetarian diet of Buddhists, as well as squid ink and fish sauce on Roman tables. This can also indirectly show that ancient Babylon was an open country at that time, so people's civilizations could communicate with each other.
Here, I want to introduce a kind of mutton soup, which is actually a diet dish. That is, take a piece of fresh tender mutton and cook it in the fire until it is rotten, then add salt, dried barley cake, Persian onion, onion and milk, stir well, mash it, and then add leek and green onion. It is said that these broths are the best diet for them to treat diseases.
This cookbook also records how to treat colds with food, that is, add coriander, coriander and leek to the broth. It can also be seen that even in Babylon more than 4000 years ago, people have developed a method of using food instead of medicinal materials to keep fit.