Toast Hawaii

Toast Hawaii or Hawaii Toast is one with ham, pineapple and cheese occupied, over -baked toast, which was popular in the 1950s in Germany.

To prepare a slightly toasted buttered toast is, each with a slice of cooked ham or smoked ham, pineapple and cheese (usually cheese ) proved and bake. Widespread, it is also to put on the finished toast a cocktail cherry, cranberry or the like, or spice it with a bit of sweet paprika. Similarly, other dishes are prepared to " Hawaiian Style" with pineapple and cheese, for example, Hawaiian pizza or steak Hawaii. Loriot played with his " veal knuckle Florida " satirical in this fashion to, as Gerhard Polt with the " meat loaf Hawaii".

The invention of the Toast Hawaii is generally the TV chef Clemens Wilmenrod attributed to the 1955 in Germany introduced him for the first time. Probably took Wilmenrodt the recipe, however, of his competitor and teacher Hans Karl Adam.

" ( Wilmenrod ) bundled on a few square centimeters wheat bread the aspirations of an entire epoch: The lavish combination of ham and cheese demonstrated the wealth, pineapple and cocktail cherries newfound expressed the longing for the wide world. "

But it is probably a slightly adapted to German conditions variant of the U.S. Grilled Spam weighting. Meanwhile recipe used instead of boiled ham Spam ( luncheon meat ) and place a slice of cheese grated cheese, but does not differ otherwise. Was published first in 1939, the recipe in the recipe book Hormel invites you to dine in spam manufacturer Hormel. Spam, however, was - unlike cooked ham - not in the German retail available.

Due to the combination of ingredients of Toast Hawaii and similar composite dishes have the potential for the formation of carcinogenic nitrosamines from nitrites in the curing salt of the ham and the amino acids of the cheese in the acidic environment of the pineapple. However, investigations of the Department of Food Technology at the Technische Fachhochschule Berlin showed no elevated levels of nitrosamines.