That's All Folks!!

That concludes my blog on Food. I hope you found it interesting and amusing. All my images I got from google images and I got the video from google videos.
The URL of the image of the burger is, http://gotobig.com/blogs/bigblogna/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/bigmac1.jpg

The URL of the image of the cake on the title is, http://img4.sunset.com/i/2006/12/candycane-cake-m-m.jpg

The URL of the image of the white chocolate cake is, http://www.simplycraving.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/white_chocolate_cake.jpg

And finally, the video I got on google videos after searching for 'How to make a White Chocolate Cake'.

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Basic Burger Recipe

As I said, I have added a recipe for my second dish. This is a recipe for a basic hamburger.

1lb/500g ground beef
1 half onion grated or finely chopped
4 pinches ground coriander
4 pinches paprika powder
a little pepper, fresh ground is better
a little salt
1 hand fresh bread crumbs
1 egg lightly beaten
1 quarter beef stock block dissolved in a quarter cup water

For the Rolls:
4 rolls
sliced tomato
thinly sliced onion
lettuce
a few slices of gherkin
mayonnaise
ketchup


Mix all the patty ingredients thoroughly, leaving the salt for after the patties are cooked if you prefer. Make sure the mixture is cool. Divide mixture into 4 equal balls and mold into patties. Cook on medium heat under the grill, on the barbecue or in a pan until the patty is cooked to your preferred degree of doneness or the internal temp reaches 160F/70C. Split the rolls and toast the cut surfaces lightly (under grill, on barbecue or in a pan) just before the patties are done. Spread mayonnaise on the bottom halves, add a thin slice of onion, some lettuce, a slice of tomato and a little sliced gherkin. Top it off with a little mayo and ketchup, the patty and the top half of the roll.


Bon Appetit!

The Drive-Thru

Right, here comes my second post on burgers. 1934 saw the arrival of the drive-thru. This changed the landscape of the fast food service and burgers forever. The whole concept of being able to stay in your car and get served a meal is the backbone of the fast food industry. Thats what "fast food" is. Food, fast.
MacDonalds opened in 1948. It was a hotdog stand that was going to revolutionize the burger that was in turn going to change the way we eat. The Big Mac was introduced in 1968.

You have to give the burger credit in America - listen to these statistics;
~Americans on average eat 3 hamburgers a week
~Macdonalds has sold 12 burgers for each person on the planet
~7% of the American workforce had their first job at MacDonalds
~Burgers account for nearly 60% of sandwiches eaten

Would you like fries with that? Fries consume 7.5% of American potatoes.

Burgers

Now I move onto my second dish. The Burger. A man's meal. For men. Not being sexist or anything... I'll start with its history. German immigrants to North Ameriica brought with them a dish called "Hamburg Style Steak", which consisted of pounded beef. This was the ancestor of the modern burger.

The first burger in America was served in the 1904 St Louis World Fair. This burger was a beef patty on a hard roll. This was the every first time the burger hit the bun. The first company to serve burgers en masse was White Castle in 1921. They were an immediate success. The original patty sold for just 5 cent.

Nowadays the burger is a massive industry worth millions. So next time you eat a burger remember, it's not just a delicious way to pass the time, it's the worlds best selling sandwich and the backbone of the fast-food industry.

Cake Ingredients

This post will follow the process of 3 ingredients of cake, and how they get to your cake, and subsequently to your belly.


Flour

Flour is one of the main ingredients of most cakes. It is a fine powder made from cereals, althouugh the most common cereal used is wheat. The wheat is ground up to make the fine powder. It takes a lot of wheat to make a small amount of flour.


Butter


Butter is made using cream from cow's milk. First, the milk is put into a machine called a seperater. The seperater seperates the milk from the cream, and then the cream is put into a churner. It is left in the churner for 3-4 days, then it is churned. Churning takes about an hour. After churning, salt is added to the butter.

Eggs

Eggs are a key ingredient to cake. Eggs are laid by chickens, then collected by farmers. Some eggs contain 2 yolks. Double-yolked eggs are generally bigger than normal eggs, so are usually easily distinguishable from other eggs. Farmers will hold eggs that might contain a second yolk up to a bright light so they can see whats inside, to make sure there is a double yolk before it can be sold.

White Chocolate Cake

Here is a recipe for a white chocolate cake. I have decided to add a recipe for different foods each post. So as you follow my blog you will also learn how to cook, hopefully.

White Chocolate Cake30 servings
Cake:
1/4 lb White Chocolate melted
1 c Butter
1 c Sugar
4 Egg yolks
1 T Vanilla
2 1/2 c Cake flour
1 T Baking powder
1/4 teaspoon Salt
1 c Buttermilk
1 c Pecans; chopped
1 c Flaked coconut (optional)
4 Egg whites
1 c Sugar
White chocolate icing:
1/4 lb White Chocolate melted
2 1/2 T Flour
1 c Milk
1 c Butter
1 c Sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon Vanilla

Melt chocolate over hot, not boiling water. Cool slightly and add
vanilla.
Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add chocolate. Add egg
yolks, one at a time, mixing after each addition. Sift dry
ingredients together and add alternately with buttermilk. Stir in
pecans and coconut (optional). Mix only enough to blend. Whip egg
whites and sugar to a soft peak. Gently fold whipped egg whites into
chocolate mixture.
Pour into a 9x13 pan or 2 8" round pans. Bake at 350~ for 40-45
minutes or until done.
White Chocolate Icing:
In medium saucepan combine melted chocolate and flour (all-purpose).
Blend in milk, cook over medium heat, stirring constantly until
thick. Cool completely.
In large mixing bowl cream butter, sugar and vanilla. Beat until
light and fluffy. Gradually add completely cooled chocolate mixture.
Beat until well blend. Do not over-mix or it will become soupy.
Spread between layers, on top and on sides of cake. Sprinkle cake
with coconut or with anything else that you like.

Cake

This is my first post following the path of food so I'm going to start with Cake. The word cake is a term with a long history. It originated from the Viking word "kaka" which was a sweet food made mainly with flour, sweetened with honey or sugar.

Nowadays when you think of cake, you think of a moist, luscious, towering confection of delicious-ness, full of flavour sensations... Nah! I'm just joking! I just think of normal cake which kind of is full of flavour sensations.

My next post will explore how cake is made and how the ingredients get from their origins to your mouth.