It is difficult to really trace those who first had the idea of creating the hamburger bun as we know it today. Because the burger belongs to everyone, as well as pizza and other iconic foods of our history
The idea of the so-called "express system" was first given to the brothers Dick and Mac McDonald: it was the fifties when they opened the first fast food in the history of America, the one that allowed them to order a Hamburger and to consume it in a very short time, without the classic expectation reserved for drive-ins. However, to make the McDonald's chain what it is today was Ray Kroc, the one who first sensed the potential of the industry turning it into a billion dollar empire. Story told by thread and sign by the director John Lee Hancock in the film The Founder of 2016, with Michael Keaton in the main role, ruthless and ambitious. To watch the film, however, it is hard to resist the temptation to order a tasty hamburger, probably one of the most iconic dishes of American cuisine, but where exactly does it come from?
Hamburger: history
The term derives from "Hamburg", or Hamburg, the second largest city in Germany. It seems, in fact, that the first German migrants to export the hamburger recipe in the United States were. Minced meat, in the fifteenth century, was considered a delicious food in Europe, exactly the opposite of what is considered today, precisely because of the very competitive prices of fast food like McDonald's. The burger as we know it today, however, seems to derive from the intuition of the Texan Fletcher Davis, recognized by the historian Frank X. Tolbert as the "father of the hamburger", inspired by thehamburg steak very popular in 18th century Hamburg, one of the dishes most requested by sailors during their travels. The first restaurant to put it on the menu was Delmonico's in New York, in 1826, but there are many theories regarding the authorship of the dish: from the Menches brothers, who in the year 85 would have ground beef in the absence of the sausage, to the fifteen year old Charlie Nagreen , who would have invented the dish at the Seymour Fair. The truth is that we will never know the name of the one who first thought of putting the beef between two tender slices of bread: the burger belongs to everyone, as well as the pizza and other iconic foods of our history.
Hamburger: the recipe
For the preparation prepare 4 classic sandwiches, 300 g of ground beef, black pepper, lettuce, 2 red tomatoes, 1 large onion, 1 cucumber, 40 g of Heinz Tomaso Ketchup. Cut the sandwiches in half and toast them on a hot plate. In a bowl season the ground meat with pepper and salt to taste, then form 4 burgers with a pastry cutter. Cook them on a plate sprinkled with coarse salt for about 7 minutes, turning them halfway through cooking. Meanwhile, cut the tomatoes, onion and cucumber into thin slices. Lay the lettuce leaves, the tomato and the still warm burgers on each sandwich and finally add the onion, cucumber and complete with Heinz Tomato Ketchup.
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