May 18 – National Cheese Soufflé Day

National Cheese Soufflé Day 

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Food Facts on Cheese Soufflés 

  • To make a great a soufflé you must beat the egg whites into stiff white consistency and carefully fold them into the sauce, keeping as much air in the mixture as possible. 
  • Cheese is added to make a cheese soufflé, you can add different ingredients like chocolate to make a different types of soufflés.
  • Savory soufflé’ are often too light for a main course, but add chicken and spinach and it turns into a main course.
  • The secret to success is making sure your timing is just right. Time the soufflé to go into the oven as you sit down for your first course.

May 17 – National Cherry Cobbler Day

National Cherry Cobbler Day 

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Food Facts on Cherry Cobbler

  • Cherry cobbler is a baked dessert made with a rich seasoned fruit filling and a biscuit dough crust. 
  • Fruit cobblers are baked in a dish with a biscuit-type crust poured or placed on top. 
  • As the cobbler cooks, the juices from the fruit ooze up through the crust resulting in a deliciously browned pastry treat.
  • This deep-dish pie is especially popular during the summer months, when cherries are in season and is made with fresh cherries, although it is also possible to make cherry cobbler from frozen cherries. 
  • No one knows how cobblers got their name, historians believe the name came from the dessert’s resemblance to a cobblestone.

May 16 – National Barbecue Day

National Barbecue Day

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Food Facts on Barbecue

  • The most popular holidays for barbecuing are, July 4th, Memorial Day, and Labor Day.
  • The most popular foods for cooking on the grill are, burgers, steak, seafood, hotdogs, and chicken.
  • The most popular flavors of barbecue sauce are hickory, followed by mesquite, honey, and then spicy-hot.
  • Competition barbecuing is one of the hottest hobbies in the country with hundreds of cook-offs held throughout all 50 states.
  • Ellsworth B. A. Zwoyer of Pennsylvania patented a design for charcoal briquettes in 1897.