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Babylonian tablets hold the oldest known recipes

The three Yale tablets record stews and broths from about 1750 BC Three clay tablets held at Yale, dated to roughly 1750 BC and written in Akkadian, list ingredients and steps for about 25 dishes including meat broths and vegetable stews. They give no quantities or cooking times, so recreating them involves guesswork. The recipes are the oldest written culinary instructions known and show that cooking was already a written craft in Mesopotamia. It sits in Mondo's records & extremes collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The three Yale tablets record stews and broths from about 1750 BC. The figure is taken from Yale University, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a records & extremes fact?: Yes. It sits on the Records & Extremes shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.