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Original Maid-rites Copycat Recipe


ORIGINAL MAID-RITES COPYCAT Recipe
If anyone grew up in the Midwest, you will remember Maid-Rite hamburgers. I believe they cost very little and were very popular. I remember begging my parents to stop and get a Maid-Rite. You could eat about 4 of them at one sitting. I found this... More

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Ingredients
  • 1 pound lean ground beef
  • 2 T. vinegar (not white)
  • 1 T. instant minced onion
  • 1 tsp. salt
  • 1 1/2 C. Swanson's chicken broth, boiling
  • 2 T. prepared mustard
  • 2 T. ketchup
  • 8 hamburger buns

Directions
  1. Brown meat lightly, drain fat if any.
  2. Add vinegar, onion, salt, ketchup and mustard, stir well.
  3. Add boiling broth.
  4. Cover and simmer until meat is tender and liquid is absorbed.
  5. Serve on hamburger buns with fresh chopped onions and mustard only.

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Now, if only they would move Steak and Shake restaurants to west of Missouri. I still dream about Steak and Shake hamburgers.


I never heard of these before, but they sound interesting and different. Do you make patties or just loose ground beef?


Sounds good to me, almost a sloppy joe... yummm


They are very much like a sloppy joe without the sloppy. You use loose ground beef. My kids used to ask for "those loose hamburgers." Kind of messy, so you have to squeeze those buns tight when taking a bite. (hamburger buns that is) LOL


I was born in Marshalltown, Iowa, site of one of the very first Maid-Rites -- about a 10 minute walk from our house. You could live on these things, and for years that's pretty much what I did.


Originated in Iowa, eh? Interesting bit of Maid-Rite trivia. Isn't it strange that we associate so much of our formative years with food? I can still smell the yeast bread and rolls my mother would make on wash days in the country (something about a warm kitchen for the rising, I guess) Thanks for the input.


I love these, thanks for the post.


I have never heard of these before. I have no idea what the orignals tasted like. My son ate 2.
Thanks for the recipe.


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