I had a lovely day off yesterday, spending it baking like a lunatic for today’s Muswell Hill and District Horticultural Society Autumn Show cookery contest. I made 8 cakes! Admittedly, 2 are for the cake stall, but I’ll have 6 in competition. Yikes. I am particularly pleased with my Yul Brynner Apple Walnut Cake (recipe coming soon):
and my Stout Brownies – made with Hammerton Oyster Stout of course! Oysters in a Brownie? Nobody will know if you don’t tell them…
Anyhow, I have lots to do before showtime, so this is a quick post to share the Vincent Price Hamburgers recipe. Which isn’t really a recipe, it’s more a concept, but it is a concept I love. Especially when I have a bit of minced beef and some pâté lying around the place needing to be used up…
Mary and Vincent Price’s Barbecued Double Hamburgers – Recipe from A Treasury of Great Recipes (1965)
Serves 4 (so I just divide up for one)
1. Divide: 1 pound freshly ground beef (round, top sirloin, or chuck) into 8 patties
2. Top 4 of the patties with: 1 slice Roquefort cheese. Cover each with a second hamburger patty and press edges together to seal.
3. Grill about 4 minutes on each side if you like your hamburgers quite rare. Season with salt and pepper after they are cooked.
4. Follow the above procedure, substituting 2 tablespoons liver pâté or 2 tablespoons of your favourite poultry dressing, cooked, in place of the cheese filling as variations on this theme.
5. Serve on toasted buttered hamburger rolls.
Yum, yum! I almost never eat the roll of a hamburger, so I served mine naked, with some Champignons Grillés Marie-Victoire from the Treasury too…
I am very excited that I now now how to put accents on the e and a little hat on the a of pâté – I have Chloë (note double dots) of Bibelot Magazine to thank for that…
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Your cake and brownies look great (and not just because your photography has become more intentional)! I can practically smell them from here. Yum! Hope you brought lots of blue ribbons home.
Your cake and brownies look great (and not just because your photography has become more intentional)! I can practically smell them from here. Yum! Hope you brought lots of blue ribbons home.