Retro burgers! Make some Fancy-Pants hamburgers from the ’50s

Fancy-Pants hamburgers - classic 50s burger recipe

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Give burgers a grand new taste: Fancy-Pants hamburgers

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.

Fancy-Pants hamburgers - classic 50s burger recipe

Fancy-Pants hamburger recipe (1955)

1 pound chopped beef
2 tbsp. fat
4 slices sharp cheese
1 can Hunt’s tomato sauce

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.

Makes 4 servings

Fancy-Pants hamburgers - vintage burger recipe


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

Cheese-filled meatloaf (1964)

Hunt's fancy-pants Hamburgers (1953)

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2 Responses

  1. Stunning lack of people of color in these ads, amirite? I was a child of the 60s and remember reading billboards on family road trips. “Where are the brown people?” Our optics have improved but wow this fault of advertising has to have aided in slow progress overall. I know it was the choice of the clients, but what a missed opportunity to alter the conversation decades ago.

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