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Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Origins of classic foods



Author: Ann_treistman (also author of 73 Ways to Help Your Baby Sleep. Wow everyone has their 2 cents about how to help a baby sleep.) The link has a slideshow for other foods like sundae, mayo (this is what I like best on MacD's)
This is the kind of question one is likely to ask of deviled eggs. What with the egg white solidifying to form nice little saucers of their whipped up yellows. McDonalds fries start from frozen fries for quality control.
For a long time I had Froffles until at a hotel I used a machine to make waffles. Have you used  pancake machines? The elevator button pressing kids have fun punching in a big number to see the assembly line in action. As much fun it is watching a machine do something for a first time, its fun to watch a person make pretzels. While industrialization has made chicken popular, pretzel making machines and bagel making machines 
put stores selling hand crafted goods out of business.
Popcorn and cotton candy machines at fair. With cotton candy, it is funny to know that they were once made by hand, a laborious process.
With chicken fried steak, a cook mistook the order and made it.
Thomas Jefferson has had an influence on American food thinking of mixing hot with cold (baked Alaska), made waffles popular by bringing a machine from France. So did WWII participants bringing with them all the foods hey liked.
Cereals and their intended audience.
If Key lime pie is so easy to make, why havent I made it yet. Besides anything that involves condensed milk can never go wrong.
When I read of Puda as Indian, I asked my husband if he knew about as I never heard of it. He said its an abbreviation Punjab urban development authority like Huda (Hyderabad ...) (All those boards next to big digs) but now it has merged into HMDA. M is for Metropolitan. Back to edible Puda, from the ingredients, it just seems another name for chile.
Comparing meatloaf in essence to Kofta gives me a new angle to look at the meatloaf recipes with and see if they can work for Koftas.
Imagine the times when sugar was scarce.


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