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ORIGINAL MAID-RITES COPYCAT Recipe

Ingredients

How to make it

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

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  • milford 5 years ago
    2 comments. Too much mustard. 2 Tb. to cook with plus more for topping. Overwhelming. My wife complained all she could taste was the mustard. Use 1 Tb to cook with. Dried onion? No. Save yourself $2 and use real onions. You can get a bag for $1. Fry some diced with the meat and add more on top.
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  • grillcoop 11 years ago
    Just like the resturants only you can make at home. I think they are worth making. Very good with pickles on top!
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  • zekesmom 14 years ago
    And everything I've read about them says, "Don't use ketchup, even on the bun!"
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  • zekesmom 14 years ago
    Maid-Rites originated in Muscatine, IA in 1926. They are delicious!
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    " It was good "
    persephone ate it and said...
    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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    " It was excellent "
    notyourmomma ate it and said...
    I love these, thanks for the post.
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  • softshellcrab 16 years ago
    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.
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  • dond 16 years ago
    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.
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  • softshellcrab 16 years ago
    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
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  • shirleyoma 16 years ago
    Sounds good to me, almost a sloppy joe... yummm
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  • organicmama 16 years ago
    I never heard of these before, but they sound interesting and different. Do you make patties or just loose ground beef?
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  • softshellcrab 16 years ago
    Now, if only they would move Steak and Shake restaurants to west of Missouri. I still dream about Steak and Shake hamburgers.
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