Hello Bob,

>LL>You don't want to know what I ate for breakfast.

>BK>You were never so right!

>LL>I'll spare you.  :)

BK>the quality of mercy is not strained... unlike the baby food in
BK>the hamburgers.

But the flavor.  The flavor just is not the same without it.  :)

BK>BTW, I do recall a 'recipe detective' a lady who reverse
BK>engineered recipes for popular foods, who said baby food beef
BK>was the secret ingredient in White Castle Hamburgers.

Hah!  An old wives' tale!  White Castle Hamburgers (those itsy
bitsy burgers about the size of a dinner roll) are not served down
South!  No sirree, Bob!  We've got Crystal Burgers! Same size, same
great taste!  With, or without, cheese!  Not only that, but after
eating two or three of those little burgers, the rest are given to
the homeless - for free!

In some grocery stores down South, Crystal Burgers can be bought
in a box.  Usually found in the frozen foods section.  And there is
nothing, absolutely nothing, in the ingredients that includes baby
food.  Lots of other stuff, yes.  But not baby food.

IOW, the 'recipe detective' lady is full of beans.

However, here is a home-based recipe for small hamburgers.  They
may not be quite the same as White Castle or Crystal hamburgers,
but they are edible enough to make any dog happy.

In order to stretch out ground meat thin enough to fit onto a dinner
roll, you have to mix the meat with beef broth.  But not too much, else
it breaks apart and looks like vomit.  But beef broth alone does not
give the meat enough flavor.  That's where the strained-beef baby food
comes in.  And don't forget the raw egg.  Without the raw egg, it just
will not taste the same.  It usually takes a few tries to get the right
consistency.  But do not despair.  Practice makes perfect.

What you do is mix the meat with beef broth and baby food, place it
on the table, flatten (but not too much), place a sheet of plastic wrap
over flattened meat, stretch by using rolling pin.  One pound of ground
meat, properly mixed with beef broth and baby food, can be stretched
to make about 20 hamburger patties.

Experiment with different kinds of baby food for unique flavors.
Strained carrots works well.  Also strained peas.  And for a truly
Hawaiian flavor, use strained pineapple.  :)

--Lee


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