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'S THE BEST EV ER RECIPE FO
URGER?" - TWO QUESTI•NS
1 CAN ACTUALLY ANSWER T
Jim White: What's the difference between
properly cooked ked haunhurgers and a fast game of
Trivial Pursuit? None - both are rare!!
The subjects ut choking and trivia set me to
thinking; how about a quick round of trivia about
Canada s favourite collective food - the ham-
burger. It must be our favourite; when 1 was Food
Writer of The Toronto Star, the most popular
readers' questions were about burgers.
To give everyone his/her hamburger fill, here's
my all-time favourite burger recipe and some
Hamburger Trivia - which you can work on while
your burgers are broiling or, better yet, barbecu-
nhe recipe is from Pierre Franey, Craig
.Iaihurne s culinary sidekick at the New Yor
Times. Mr. Franey visited me at The Star where
lis made the best hamburger I ever ate. And he
did it using a can «t beet broth!! The recipe
New
in the Franey -Claiborne collection, The
New York Times 60 -Minute Gourmet, which was
the tint of a series ut 60 -Minute Gourmet tales
co-authored by the pair. The Trader and 1 share
rhe view that these ht+t ks contain some of North
America's hest contempt irary recipes and should
he in everyone's library.
The answers to Hamburger lnvia appear atter
the recipes.
1. In what year was the hamburger invented?
a) 1867 b) 44 B.C. c) 1903. 2. What is the full
name of the insatiable hamburger addict who
appears in Popeye? 3. What was the first roadside
hamburger chain in the U.S.? 4. What do you ask
for when you want a cheeseburger in a chi -chi
Parisian restaurant? 5. You might not sit down to
eat a_ plate of fish sticks, peanut butter and
charbroiled beef, but they do have something in
common. What?
PIERRE FRANEY'S BEST -EVER H.\M-
t3l'R(;ER WIT} { PL-PEPRC'ORN SAJ. C'F
1.112 lbs. lean ground beef 750 g
Salt
t-1/2 to 20 to
2 thsp whole black peppercorns 25 25 mLL
2 thsp butter
L
1 thsp finely, chopped shallots 15 mL
or onion
1/4cup dry red wine 50mL
1 thsp brandy, 15 mL
Ai/4 cup beef broth (homemade 50 mL
or canned)
2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley 25 mL
°°What's Wimpey's
favourite parlor
game?"
7'99
"Hamburger
Pursuit?"
1. Shape meat into tour patties. Sprinkle lightly
with salt. Place waxed paper on tlat surface; place
whole peppercorns at top and crush with bottom
of heavy skillet. (a tat patties (on both sides) with
crushed pepperc+ans.
2. t tear a heavy saucepan or iron skdlct over
medium-high heat but do nut add tar. When hot,
.idd parties. (:auk abitur 5 minutes un each side,
flipping «illy once with it spatula. (This makes a
rare burger - Franey's choice. Fur hitter-tlone
burgers, cook an additional 2 to 3 nunutcs per
side.) Remove patties and keep warns; reserve
in twos.
i. In saint saucepan «ver medium heat, melt halt
the butter. Add shallots and cook, stirring, until
wilted. Add wine and cook I additional minute.
Stir in brandy and reduce liquid by half.
4. Add beet hr ah and ci+«k until liquid is reduced
to about i thsp (45 int.). Swirl in rcnr.uningF,,
butter, return hamburgers to saucepan and
reinovt twin hear. Serve garnished with chopped
p,trslct. Makes knit- servings. (;riar with tries.
Answers to Hamburger Trivia:
1. In 1003,,ii pptsrdly ut New Haven, Cain., at
t nm, and still -standing, restaurant called Louis
Lunch: The c recut gots to Louis' Lassen who, u's
said, sandwiched grilled leftover meat between
two slices of hread, dubbing his creation u
"hamburger: Some insist that the tirst ham-
burger appeared a year latter, ,tt the 1904 L mist -
Purchase Exposition in tit. Louis, Miss,. tun,
but this is where the Itrst hot dug appeared. 2. J.
\Y'ellingttn lX'inept. 3. White Bite Castle; the tirst
w,ts built in \XStchita, Is visas, un 1921. 4. Le
Cheeseburger, tit count. 5. Nutritional mutes
ahuut them: ftu+ds appear in a new p unphler,
LOOKIN' GOOD, appear
GOOD WITH
BEEF. Ir contains beef recipes and an easy, -to-
t +llow dict plan. (;et ti tree copy at the meat
counter, of your local Lublaws, Luhhtws Super-
store or'Lehrs.