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  Sometimes the need to manifest the historical reasons for the creation of the food is so great that it maintains several different versions. For example, food historians (and there are people) can not confirm until today, this version rise mayonnaise is true - that the siege of the city of Mahon, the defenders had only supply of eggs and olive oil, or with Charles, the Prince Mayonne, who had this season chicken sauce just before the battle with Henry IV.
  Moreover, they are not the only versions. Well - anecdotes, legends, or at least are needed to enhance the attractiveness of the gray old. Of course, you can wring mayonnaise and without legends, but why spoil a great fun?

Once, many dishes had their legendary origins tied mostly to the crowned heads and prominent commanders, one way or another with people who were able to cook interesting inventing new dishes. Though such Chinese reportedly gave one of the types of fried noodles called on the minister Qin Hui, the dynasty of the national traitors and killers of Chinese national hero Yue Fei. What country is the custom, but for me, food should be associated with something sublime. Head of the ruling, chiefs, politicians aristocratic, well in the end artists. At the time of the collapse of morals does not hurt a bit snobbish.

One of the most interesting dishes created to special order a dessert, crowned head, the more interesting story, that the person who ordered it, in the end it does not eat. Dessert called Kaiserschmarrn arisen through caring about the line of the Empress Sissi, wife of Franz Joseph I. The unfortunate woman in marriage, severely suicidal death of his son survived, coldness, and incompatibility with the nature of the imperial husband, and the requirements prevailing at the court of the Habsburgs' Spanish labels. It was probably suffered from neurosis and depression. These psychological problems are reflected in its attitude to food - a reluctant and oriented to maintain a permanent "good line". Asked the cook cook light and dessert ... Although the chef has really tried (at least if we mean nineteenth-century standards), the Empress refused to eat dessert as too. Just then the Emperor said: So let's see what the "schmarrn (mish-mash, mess) our chef. The emperor not only ate his portion, but a portion of his wife. He did this because it was known for his praise of simple dishes, especially in comparison with the refined courtly cuisine (for example, loved to play the meat, and trout Tafelspitz or "blue"). Since then, the dessert was called Kaiserschmarrn (imperial mess, but actually this should not be explained). Would you like to feel like the ruler of an empire? I invite you to complete this three eggs, one hundred grams of flour, sugar, teaspoon, half teaspoon of vanilla sugar, half teaspoon salt, half cup milk, one hundred grams of butter and raisins, if your heart desires. Mix egg yolks with the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt and milk to give rise to a light dough pancakes. Proteins are slaughtered "the stiff" and gently mix with the cake pancake, seals raisins. Fry in hot butter unhurriedly. Then into smaller pieces and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Well, actually it is hardly surprising that taking care of the line Sissi did not want to eat, but I better be satisfied with life than the slim, right? One of the greatest diplomats of all time - the chancellor Klemens Metternich - also not liked food. Chroniclers reported that his favorite meal was the bread with butter and a glass of milk, which was an object of sympathy culinary constant scorn of his equally aristocratic wife (daughter of Austrian Chancellor von Kaunitz). When my wife and daughters had left "the waters" without regret sent his cook with them, together with the assistance of (according to another version, just sick, but I will always be more romantic and interesting stories - even if they are a little less true). In the Czech castle Metternich remained only to prepare his meals one. Fate Prince Metternich was forced to make during the absence of a cook as well as he aristocratic guests. Prepare the entire dinner was unfortunate. I doubt we would have to deal with one of the largest princely failures, if not that was Franz Sacher - a man named, who went to the culinary history through this fateful dinner. Indeed, the prince asked the cook to create a dessert shame his gracious prince (a wise diplomat knows, the perfect dessert that is able to erase bad memories about the whole meal, something which I recommend psychological state account). And Sacher added task. Created a cake that wowed both Metternich (and remember that he ate meals prepared by top chefs of the world, for example, sumptuous meals during the Congress of Vienna), as well as invited guests, and to history as Sachertorte and became the reason for the names of sixteen glorified cook for the whole contemporary world and the basis for a culinary empire Sacher with a five-star hotel Sacher in Vienna. Today, the hotel belongs to another company, but that he has, held in a strictly confidential, the original recipe for the Sacher cake, secret past as some of our politicians.

Despite the secrecy, we can try to taste at least close to the original, bearing in mind that the essence of this wonderful cake lies in the combination of chocolate cake, apricot jam and whipped cream. Need some chocolate - to the top plate - the more cocoa content, the better, it must be dissolved in a water bath at the beginning, and when it dissolves, about 180-200 grams 100-120 grams of butter with sugar (I like the more sweet), adding eight yolks (slowly, to obtain a uniform mass), and two hundred grams of flour and a little potato cake. Proteins are slaughtered in a small amount of sugar (about 50 grams) for stiff and mix with the chocolate mass. Bake in a spring form pan at 180 degrees. Cross the dough into two cake "tops" and, if necessary - (although some of the provisions recommended whatever dry dough). Countertops translate jam 250 grams, 250 grams of others of that lubricates jam cake from the outside and should "bite" through the night. Morning dissolve the second chocolate bar with 125 ml of water and add sugar, at its own discretion, I can not I add too much, I prefer a mixture of dark chocolate and sweet apricot inside. But remember - this cake require the engagement of difficult and easy to spoil. However, if someone missed the genius of the kitchen and time, and for that there was no shortage of money, I invite you to the Hotel Sacher in Vienna, where you can enjoy the original recipe, and the legendary chocolate seal adorning every true Sachertorte. Most great men of this world do not have a direct impact on food related legend, sometimes only popularize existing pleasures of the table. Norman Davies in Europe, describes his first start of the great French and later world-famous cheese, brie: In 774 years, way back on the campaign against Longobard, Charlemagne stood on the plateau of Brie, close to the Abbey of Meauxnfasting gave him a portion of cheese. Insisted that he ate everything, together with the skin. After this feast, Charles ordered that each year were sent to him in Aachen two parties brie cheese. His secretary, Einhard, recorded a second, similar incident that happened in four years later in southern France during the wars with the Saracen. Stopping in Rouergue, the king soon found himself in a taste for blue cheese from sheep's milk, which is matured in limestone caves of Roquefort, and a recipe known since ancient Rome. The rest is history. So great is this world become midwives of the new dishes. The glory of them, at least for that.


 
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