This recipe uses seasoned chopped beef, sharp cheese and a can of tomato sauce to turn regular patties into something different. Instead of melting cheese over the top, it gets sealed inside. Then the sauce finishes the dish with a rich flavor and a little extra comfort. It’s one way home cooks of yore brought a small surprise to the table without much effort.
Give burgers a grand new taste: Fancy-Pants retro burgers
Of course, you don’t need special recipes for Hunt’s Tomato Sauce — you can simply add it to your own favorites.
For example, when you fry just plain hamburgers, brown one side, turn, and pour in a can of Hunt’s. When they’re done, the bubbling-hot sauce will be deliciously blended with the meat juices.
Retro burgers! Hunt's Fancy-Pants Hamburgers
Ingredients
- 1 pound chopped beef
- 2 tbsp. fat
- 4 slices sharp cheese
- 1 can Hunt's tomato sauce
Instructions
- Season beef and form into 8 thin hamburger cakes. Place slices of cheese on four of the hamburger cakes. Cover them with the remaining four and pinch the edges together to enclose the cheese completely.
- In a skillet, brown the cakes on one side in hot fat. Turn them and pour over them 1 can Hunt's tomato sauce. Simmer for 8 to 10 minutes, basting occasionally. Serve piping hot.
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Hunt’s fancy-pants hamburgers recipe (1953)
This is perhaps the most popular recipe ever originated in the Hunt kitchens!
The reason? Juicy hamburger . . . melted cheese blended with the delicious flavor of Hunt’s Tomato Sauce. That’s the honest-to-goodness cooking sauce that’s all tomato-seasoned with spice and everything nice. Try this recipe and see!
1 pound chopped beef
Season beef and form into 8 thin hamburger cakes. Take:
4 slices sharp cheese
Place slices of cheese on four of the hamburger cakes. Cover them with the remaining four and pinch the edges together to enclose the cheese completely.
In a skillet, brown the cakes on one side in hot fat. Turn them over and pour over them:
1 can Hunt’s tomato sauce
Simmer for 8 to 10 minutes, basting occasionally. Serve them piping hot with the delicious pan gravy — a wonderful treat for four people!
Delicious dollar-stretching recipe
You know, you can almost double the number of recipes you serve your family by simply adding a can or two of Hunt’s Tomato Sauce. How it does flavor up a dish! And it costs so little-only a few cents a can.
Try Hunt’s Tomato Sauce in your stews, soups, casseroles, fish, meatloaf, spaghetti, gravies. Your grocer has it.
Hunt — for the best / Hunt Foods. Inc. Fullerton, California
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And only pennies a serving!