Wayne Boatwright <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> hitched up their panties
and posted news:[email hidden]:
Quoted message said:Michael,
In another thread you wrote that you had Barb Schaller's recipe for
Maid- Rites. Could you pass that on?
Tonight we're having some real Maid-Rites that a friend had shipped in
from Iowa, but I'd like to surprise her with a recipe.
Thanks!
Here ya' go. I saved her entire post as she's got other tips in the post
along with the recipe:
From the esteemed Barb Schaller:
Here's from the Top Secret Recipes site - from smething resembling a
requests section, I think:
"There is a little restaurant in Greenville, Ohio [Darke County] called
"Maid Rites." They have been in business FOREVER! My mother used to go
there as young girl and in turn told us kids about it, and even took us
there as a treat. My husband and I still go there to eat whenever we
are in Greenville. They make a loose meat sandwich that people talk
about for days after having one...or two or three. We have taken
out-of-town friends there and turned them on to the unique taste of
these sandwiches. I can still remember Mother preparing us for the
various wads of gum stuck to the outside of the building left there by
people waiting at the drive-thru windows. All of these years later
people STILL deposit their gum on the exterior walls of the restaurant!
It's such a tradition now. Several years ago there was a major fire in
the restaurant and we all held our collective breaths to see if they
would rebuil/remodel/reopen and they did!!! Many years ago Mother was
going through some old recipes and ran across one that she said her
mother gave her for Maid Rite sandwiches. I have made them and with
some time and the right amount of "pinches" of spices you can replicate
the famous Maid Rite loose meat sandwiches. There are probably other
little restaurants across the country that boast their recipe is the
original...Here is the one we have:
Maid Rites Clone
1 1/2 pounds ground beef
2 teaspoons granulated sugar
3-4 teaspoons prepared mustard
4 Tablespoons beer
To Taste:
red pepper
black pepper
garlic salt
salt
Brown & drain the hamburger. Stir in the other ingredients and simmer.
Spices are added "to taste." The Maid Rite serves their sandwiches with a
choice of cheese, mustard and chopped fresh onion. Bet ya' can't eat just
one!"
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-Barb, <www.jamlady.eboard.com> Updated 11-29-04; Sam I Am!
birthday telling; Thanksgiving 2004; Fanfare, Maestro, please.
"Are we going to measure or are we going to cook?" -Food writer
Mimi Sheraton
--
"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she
served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been
found."
--Calvin Trillin