Ground Beef Hamburgers and the History

Now some Ground Beef Hamburgers history information. Just some general stuff but interesting!

The exact evolution of the word "hamburger" is unclear. The only certainty is that the first letter of "Ham" nothing to do with the English language "Ham" (= pork) . However, there are theories about the origin of the hamburger.

One is that was actually due to the German city of Hamburg. There is a warm round of Hamburg Imbiss. This snack is a wheat bread ( "circular") with a slice of roast beef and gravy on it, they are given. Another variant of this classical piece "Hamburger" is a wheat bun with minced meat pie meat and egg yolks. The recipe had come with German immigrants in the United States. In the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis as meat sandwiches - even without 'er' suffix - the "Hamburg sells.

In an American cookbook in 1842, first mentioned the word 'meat burger to a steak of minced beef (US.: ground beef, British: to minced meat). The hamburger meat is also called "type of hamburger meat." He was placed on the meat loaf or rolls, known as a hamburger sandwich.

A mid 20th century both terms are reduced to just burgers or hamburgers. While the English word "burger" to the places used ground beef (lean meat), or may remain in the structure of bare skin without bread and other ingredients, is always of the Germans, snacks of all meat and bread.

Another theory assumes that the name originated in 1885 at a fair near the town of Hamburg, Erie County, Buffalo, New York. There was a bar Menche Brothers, where he experienced because of a shortage of hot pork (roast pork) with beef as a substitute. They called their creation according to the birthplace of the hamburger. This theory is officially distributed by the State of New York with a gift of the slogan of New York for the Kitchen, the hamburger. [1]

Another theory is that (especially in the early years of colonization in the United States (before the construction of cattle) beef imported through the port of Hamburg, cooled Blockice) was a luxury item, the slang word commonly called Hamburg beef premium, which should also be highlighted.