San Fran's Hangtown Fry & Arizona's Posole
Monday Night Meals: Football Edition!!! Week 8: San Francisco 49ers vs. Arizona Cardinals
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Monday Night Football continues and True Treats is going to help you enjoy it even more! Week 8 brings us The San Francisco 49ers vs The Arizona Cardinals. True Treats brings you specialty recipes from the team's cities, and shows you how to make them.
This week - Hangtown Fry & Posole
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Hangtown Fry - Chef Jason Bunin Cocoa Beach, Fl
This week I'm closing out May with an oldie but goodie for breakfast/brunch, the Hangtown Fry. The Hangtown Fry originated in the mid 1800's during the California gold rush with miners who struck it rich. They were far enough inland that oysters were an expensive ingredient to haul that far from the San Franciso Bay area, eggs had to be packed carefully to make the trip, and bacon had to be shipped in, so it was the three most expensive ingredients they had. If you saw someone eating a Hangtown Fry, you probably wanted to know where they were searching for gold in them there hills!
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Is Gold Rush Classic Hangtown Fry Chinese?
Hangtown is today’s Placerville. A gold rush town in the Sierra foothills northeast of Sacramento in California. Is it true that one of the most classic Gold Rush dishes is Chinese in origin?
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0:00 Intro
0:26 Hangtown
0:42 How hangtown fry came about
2:25 Sze Yap and oysters
4:05 Teochew oyster pancake
5:08 Making the dishes!
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Hangtown fry | Wikipedia audio article
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Hangtown fry
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Hangtown fry is a type of omelette made famous during the California Gold Rush in the 1850s. The most common version includes bacon and oysters combined with eggs, and fried together.
The dish was invented in Placerville, California, then known as Hangtown. According to most accounts, the dish was invented when a gold prospector struck it rich, headed to the Cary House Hotel, and demanded the most expensive dish that the kitchen could provide. The most expensive ingredients available were eggs, which were delicate and had to be carefully brought to the mining town; bacon, which was shipped from the East Coast, and oysters, which had to be brought on ice from San Francisco, over 100 miles away.Another creation myth is the one told by the waiters at Sam's Grill in Tiburon, just north of San Francisco. At the county jail in Placerville, a condemned man was asked what he would like to eat for his last meal. He thought quickly and ordered an oyster omelet, knowing that the oysters would have to be brought from the water, over a hundred miles away by steamship and over rough roads, delaying his execution for a day.The dish was popularized by Tadich Grill in San Francisco, where it has apparently been on the menu for 160 years. Later variations on the dish include the addition of onions, bell peppers, or various spices, and deep frying the oysters before adding them to the omelette.
According to the El Dorado County Museum, No dish epitomizes California and its Gold Rush more than Hangtown Fry. It was created at a location central to the Gold Rush at the same time the great state was being born. And, like the miners who worked the river banks and hillsides, and the population that followed, it is a unique blend of many things, both those produced locally and those that have arrived from elsewhere.