 During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German
merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic
Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their
saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to
bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and
season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found
its way back to the merchant's hometown of Hamburg where cooks
broiled the meat and referred to it as it as Hamburg meat.
German immigrants introduced the recipe to the US.
The term "hamburger" is believed to have appeared in 1834 on
the menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York but there is
no surviving recipe for the meal. The first mention in print
of "Hamburg steak" was made in 1884 in the Boston Evening
Journal.
The honour of producing the first proper hamburger goes to
Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, WI. In 1885 Nagreen introduced the
American hamburger at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour.
(Seymour is recognised as the hamburger capital of the
world.)
However, there is another claim to that throne. There is an
account of Frank and Charles Menches who, also in 1885, went
to the Hamburg, New York county fair to prepare their famous
pork sausage sandwiches. But since the local meat market was
out of pork sausage, they used ground beef instead. Alas,
another hamburger.
The first account of serving ground meat patties
on buns - taking on the look of the hamburger as we
know it today - took place in 1904 at the St. Louis World
Fair. But it was many years later, in 1921, that an
enterprising cook from Wichita, Kansas, Walt Anderson,
introduced the concept of the hamburger restaurant. He
convinced financier Billy Ingram to invest 0 to create The
White Castle hamburger chain. It was an instant success. The
rest of the history, we might say, belongs to McDonald's.
And, no, a hamburger does not have any ham in it. Well,
it's not supposed to. Hamburger meat usually is made of 70-80%
beef, and fat and spices. |
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