100 ancient recipies

ANCIENT MEALS · 079 / 100 Southern Neolithic crop traditions · Deccan and peninsular India · c. 2500–1000 BCE Evidence: archaeological reconstruction. The historical evidence and modern cooking choices are distinguished below. Jump to recipe A crop hidden by its reputation Horsegram rarely attracts the attention given to wheat, rice, or a fashionable bean. That imbalance is a poor guide to its past. Fuller and Murphy's study of horsegram origins combines archaeological seeds, historical language evidence, and wild plant records to examine a crop important in ancient South Asia. Its modest modern status can obscure a long history of cultivation. Generated illustration of the modern recipe adaptation; not an archaeological photograph or an exact ancient reconstruction. Southern Indian farming had its own crop package. Research on plant domestication in the subcontinent discusses horsegram, mung beans, and local millets among the recurring resources of the Southern Neolithic. This ...