Food Facts on Devils Food Cake

• Devils food cake is a moist cake and tastes best prepared with real cocoa.

• Devils food cake gets its name because of its rich mahogany color.

• Devil’s food cake has been around since the early 20th century, the recipe can be found in print in 1905.

• The red velvet cake and a devil’s food cake may have been interchangeable in early cookbooks.

• Devils food cake recipes call for less egg and more chocolate than traditional chocolate cake.

• Devil’s Food Cake is a favorite of chocolate lovers everywhere!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Food Facts on Chocolate Chips 

• Chocolate chips are tiny teardrop-shaped morsels of chocolate.

• American consumer over 7 billion chocolate chips annually.

• Chocolate chips can be used in brownies, pancakes, muffins or cookies or just scarf them by the handful straight from the bag.

• Today, 25% of all the cookies baked in the United States are chocolate chip!

• In the 1930′s the Chocolate chip cookie was discovered, by Ruth Graves Wakefield at her Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.

• The term “Toll House” is legally a generic word for chocolate chip cookie.

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Food Facts on Buttermilk Biscuits 

• Buttermilk biscuits are very tender biscuit partially leavened with buttermilk and soda.

• Buttermilk Biscuits are called quick breads because they do not need time to rise before baking.

• Buttermilk biscuits can be served as a side dish or as a meal.  They are often eaten with butter and a sweet condiment or popular with butter and gravy.

• The pre-shaped ready-to-bake biscuits you see in supermarkets in round cardboard cans were patented in 1931.

• Buttermilk biscuits care very similar to British scones.

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Food Facts on Apple Pie

• An apple pie is a fruit pie or tart in which the principal filling ingredient is an apple.

• It is sometimes served with whipped cream or ice cream on top, or alongside cheddar cheese

• Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making it a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a circular shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips.

• The unincorporated community of Pie Town, New Mexico is named in honor of the apple pie.

• Apple pie in the 14th century was very different from today’s pie, as it didn’t contain sugar and the pastry (coffins) generally not meant to be eaten.

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A Caviar Sandwich, one can dream can’t they?

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