Silly Tag :)

Medena from Café Chocolada tagged me for this, as she called it, silly meme :). Here is how it goes, and it is desired to keep the foodie theme :

1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.

So, since I don’t have cookbooks in English, I’ll do the oldest Serbian cookbook: “My Cookbook and Adviser” by Spasenija Pata Marinković popularly called “Pata’s Cookbook”. It was first published in 1907, and in the preface she quoted Ibsen: “The best books are cookbooks, most of the others should have never been written. Too bad cookbook writers are usually unknown.” Ironically, after WW2, communist regime arrested her as a traitor, banned her name, and all editions published during 1945 – 1990 were signed with her initials only. Still, it is the most praised cookbook in Serbia, and I have 1953 edition, bought by my grandmother, with underlined titles of the recipes she tested and liked.

Page 123, fifth sentence: Add one old bread roll, crumbled and soaked in milk.

I’ll post the next three sentences (and the whole recipe at the and of the post), but first, I am tagging:

1. Farida from Farida’s Azerbaijani Cookbook
2. TOONTZ form Okara mountain
3. Chloe from The Froth
4. Pete and Melissa from The Toasted
5. Ellie from Kitchen Wench

And finally the recipe:

On the meat grinder, grind 500 g beef meat. Fry 1 finely chopped onion and combine with meat. Add one old bread roll, crumbled and soaked in milk. Add one whole egg, salt and black pepper and stir until the mass is almost foamy. Now knead the meat for about 10 minutes, and then flour your hands and make flat burgers. Beat one egg with a little milk, coat each burger in flour first, then into the egg and milk. Just before the lunch, heat oil in a black pan and fry burgers on medium heat.