![]() ![]() Similar words are found in other European languages, and the root may be "farce," deriving from Latin farcere (to stuff). In northern Germany, lightly fried chopped meat was called Frikadelle. Beginning in the fifteenth century, minced beef was a valued delicacy throughout Europe. The invention of the twentieth-century hamburger sandwich is the result of long developmental processes. The resulting product can be easily shaped into different forms and prepared in a variety of ways -raw in steak tartare, molded into flat cakes or croquets, baked in a loaf, boiled and served in soups, barbecued or roasted and served on a bun, fried into meat balls, or stuffed into sausages with spices and herbs for later consumption. Mixture could be added parts of other animals, plants, spices, flavorings, and adulterations. Its main advantage was that it was an efficient way of using many smaller parts of the cow, including fat, organs, brains, and so on. Humans have consumed beef in scraped, chopped, hashed, and minced forms since the domestication of the cow. ![]()
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