[Sca-cooks] the Smithsonian's take on the history of the hamburger

[Daniel Myers]

Bad form on my part - emailing before I read the rest of the article (and now in  replying to my own post). They went on to state that such grinders were rare before then.
 
- Doc
 
--------- Original Message --------- Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] the Smithsonian's take on the history of the hamburger
From: "Daniel Myers" <dmyers at medievalcookery.com>
Date: 7/18/16 10:21 am
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

 
 I found the following comment a bit odd: "It was much more work than running it through a meat grinder. But mechanical grinders were still rare items in the 1880s."
 
 The 1897 Sears catalog included multiple listings for meat grinders (I can check my 1889 copy when I get home) and they don't seem to be prohibitively expensive compared to other goods. Perhaps they meant industrial meat grinders?
 
 - Doc
 
 --------- Original Message --------- Subject: [Sca-cooks] the Smithsonian's take on the history of the hamburger
 From: "Sandra J. Kisner" <sjk3 at cornell.edu>
 Date: 7/18/16 9:00 am
 To: "'Cooks within the SCA'" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
 
 They go as far back as Apicius, though they used the Vehling translation. It might be interesting to compare other translations to see what they have to say about the recipe:
 
 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/taste-testing-history-hamburger-180959789/
 
 Sandra
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