Hemingway's Favorite Burger

"Digitally released by the JFK Presidential Library 2/11/14. I found it on this BBC article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-26160596 It is also posted on the JFC Presidential Library Facebook page 2/11/14: https://www.facebook.com/JFKLibrary It is interesting to see Mary Hemingway's special instructions scribbled in the margins. The original recipe specified Spice Island Mei Yen Powder which is no longer available so I have replaced that with the components of salt, sugar and MSG. These are whopping 8 oz burgers....I might make them smaller. If you do, adjust the cooking time."
 
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Ready In:
13mins
Ingredients:
13
Serves:
2
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ingredients

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directions

  • Break up the meat with a fork and scatter the garlic, onion and dry seasonings over it, then mix them into the meat with a fork or your fingers.
  • Let the bowl of meat sit out of the icebox for ten or fifteen minutes while you set the table and make the salad.
  • Add the relish, capers, everything else including wine and let the meat sit, quietly marinating, for another ten minutes if possible.
  • Now make your fat, juicy patties with your hands. The patties should be an inch thick, and soft in texture but not runny.
  • Have the oil in your frying pan hot but not smoking when you drop in the patties and then turn the heat down and fry the burgers about four minutes.
  • Take the pan off the burner and turn the heat high again.
  • Flip the burgers over, put the pan back on the hot fire, then after one minute, turn the heat down again and cook another three minutes.
  • Both sides of the burgers should be crispy brown and the middle pink and juicy.
  • Time does not include sitting times.

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  1. lol, I've been making these for many years. I have no idea where I got the recipe, and I've never once seen it anywhere else. They're very good burgers, flavorful and tender. One of my favorites.
     
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As I am in South Florida, I have many edible fruits and perennial veggies in my yard. So, I like to cook with them.
 
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