Chapter 1942： Sacher cake

After the dinner, everyone was sitting around the fireplace, a cup of coffee and a piece of cake constituted the dessert tonight.

Some people say that you don’t have to visit Vienna if you haven’t eaten Sacher cake, just like you don’t have been to the capital if you haven’t eaten roast duck!

However, the Austrians usually eat cakes in the warm-lit afternoon, drink a cup of coffee, savor a piece of Sacher cake, and enjoy the warmest time of the day. Happiness is actually that simple.

Today, in order for the VIPs to taste the most distinctive food, the pastry chef specially made the Sacher cake.

Speaking of it, the Sacher cake has a history of 180 years. It has become one of the indispensable symbols of Vienna. Just like the Vienna Golden Hall, Vienna Music, and Vienna Waltz, this chocolate cake coated with apricot jam and cocoa icing may It is the most famous cake in the world.

The secret of the delicious Sacher cake is that it is made with simple ingredients and perfect proportions.

The Sacher cake shop keeps its original recipe secret and keeps it strictly confidential. At present, the most famous Sacher cake shop produces about 300,000 original Sacher cakes every year, because they are all handmade and require 21 pastry chefs and 25 packaging workers. Together, 70 tons of apricot jam are consumed every year.

"Do you know the history of the Sacher cake? That is a very interesting story~"

Alois also carried a plate of cakes, with a friendly smile from beginning to end.

Luo Yue said, "I know, it is said that in 1832, the then Prince Metternich of Austria went to the wedding of a painter friend.

He specially assigned his court chef to make a special dessert for the celebrities and nobles attending the wedding, and he also asked the chef not to lose his face. However, he did not expect that the chef suddenly became ill, and some people said he wanted to shirk responsibility. The chef took a leave of absence, so a 16-year-old pastry apprentice named Franz Sacher took on this difficult task.

That night, the young apprentice invented a uniquely flavored chocolate cake. This dessert puts a layer of fresh apricot jam in a thick-tasting chocolate cake to separate two layers of chocolate cakes with different degrees of softness and hardness. , Wrapped in dark chocolate sauce, and squeezed a bit of unsweetened cream on the side.

The princes and VIPs who attended the wedding were amazed after tasting.

When Metternich was happy, he named the cake he invented by Sacher's surname, so the Sacher cake became popular in Austria's upper class overnight and became a must-have dessert on the noble table.

I heard that Princess Sissi has a soft spot for Sacher cakes! "

Alois laughed and said, "Yes, that's it. Later, after years of training, Franz Sacher, who was consciously skilled in cooking, opened a dessert shop in Vienna. More people can taste Sacher cakes. This chocolate cake also became the best-selling dessert in Vienna at that time.

But outsiders don’t know it. In fact, it is Franz Sacher’s son Edward Sacher who really makes the Sacher cake flourish. He perfected his father’s cake recipe when he was an intern at a court dessert shop and used the original “Original Sacher” recipe. The "He cake" brand is on sale, and this recipe is still in use today.

Soon Edward Sacher returned to work in his father’s small shop, and gradually developed it into a hotel, which now became the five-star luxury hotel Sacher Hotel in the center of Vienna. He also began to produce in his own hotel Selling original Sacher cakes. Since then, there have been two stores in Vienna selling authentic Sacher cakes.

Unfortunately, the Sacher Hotel went bankrupt and resold it to others, and Sacher’s descendants sold the secret recipe of the cake to the court dessert shop.

After the Sacher cake became famous, the owner of the hotel and the court dessert shop began to argue over who is the ‘original Sacher cake’ and filed a lawsuit.

In the end, after more than 20 years of long legal procedures, the two parties reached an out-of-court settlement: The Sacher Hotel can continue to use the circular logo of ‘Original Sacher Cake’, while the court dessert shop uses the triangle logo of ‘Edward Sacher. "

Yang Cheng asked, "Do the two cakes taste the same?"

Alois shook his head. "It's not the same. The preparation method is slightly different. The Sacher cake in the dessert shop is coated with apricot jam under the chocolate icing, while the Sacher cake in the Sacher hotel is in the middle of the chocolate cake. Add a layer of apricot jam.

But Viennese people prefer to go to dessert shops, because they think they use the oldest method of making Sacher cakes.

However, there are many people who like the taste of Sacher’s cakes, especially the chocolate icing on the outside of the cake. It is a mixture of three different chocolates, and each chocolate is specially made for the Sacher by a different manufacturer. Yes, as for the specific matching ratio of the three chocolates, it is confidential and only the Sacher Hotel will know. "

Yang Cheng shrugged, "But now Sacher cakes are available all over the world, and they taste pretty good."

Alois did not deny, "This is no way. After all, there are many capable people. It is not difficult to taste the cake and make the same taste or improvement."

Luo Yue suddenly said with emotion, "Although I have never eaten the most authentic, but I feel that the Sacher cake of Vaduz Castle is the most authentic, and this famous cup of Vienna coffee."

Faced with such high-level praise, Alois only smiled faintly, but he said, "In fact, what you eat is the most authentic. My chef used to go to the court dessert shop to study."

Also, the so-called trade secrets are nothing to the royal family.

As for the Vienna coffee mentioned by Luo Yue, UU Reading www.uukānshu.com is also the most famous coffee in Austria. It was invented by a coachman named Ein Schuberner. Perhaps for this reason, people occasionally say Viennese coffee is a "single-headed carriage", which fascinates people from all over the world with the sweet flavor of heavy cream and chocolate.

On the snow-white whipped cream, the five-color colorful rice is sprinkled, and the people’s tongue will grow when you look at it. Sipping hot coffee through the sweet chocolate syrup and ice-cold whipped cream is even more unique.

The most important thing is that the fragrance of Viennese coffee can be perfectly combined with the fragrance of Sacher cake. If you eat Sacher cake without Viennese coffee, it is definitely a pity.

It can be said that this is a pair of classic combinations, just like soy milk fritters, soy sauce Jiao Quan Er, roast duck lotus leaf cake, one is indispensable.

However, the best place to taste this classic combination should be the coffee shop on the Danube River, because the coffee shop here is also different from other places. Europeans agree that it was the Turks that made coffee flow into Europe, but the Viennese made coffee tasting. It has become literature, it has become art, it has become a kind of life.

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