Classic Slug Burger Recipe

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Ingredients
1 pound ground beef 75-80% lean
1 cup potato flakes or combination potato flour and potato flakes combined
salt and pepper to taste
cooking oil enough to cover the patties for frying
Instructions
Begin heating oil on medium heat to 350℉
Combine the ground beef, potato flakes and salt and pepper in a bowl. Mix thoroughly to evenly distribute the potato flakes into the beef.
Form the mixture into 3 or 4 patties. They don't need to be perfect and they don't need to be super thick - remember, we're talking 1917 here.
Once the oil reaches 350℉, carefully add the patties to the oil and fry for about 3 minutes on each side. You want to cook the meat through and form a light crust on the outside.
Remove from the oil and drain on paper towels just a few minutes. Serve hot and to be authentic, serve on a steamed bun with the original fixings of mustard, dill pickle slices and onion.
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[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

If this was Ordinary Sausage the burger would be at least 50% real slug. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

[@ffwast]

Refer to the snail episode: 100% snails, rated 4/5

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

I purchased the "ground beef" from Walmart. So it probably is 47% crickets. My apologies. 👍😊❤️

[@skaldlouiscyphre2453]

@@MelonieTriesRecipes That's almost as good.😂🤣

[@Linda7647]

Somebody watches Reviewbrah 😂

[@Linda7647]

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[@berean65]

My dad would made something similar. Instead of mashed potato flakes, he used grated potatoes. He would also grate some onion.

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Sounds delicious. 👍😊❤

[@Memymine-xp2cu]

I like to add breadcrumbs, minced onions, and minced red peppers to my hamburgers. 😊

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Excellent idea. I'll have to try that. Thank you. 👍😊❤️

[@donnaleveron5711]

Sounds good.

[@kentmarsh6442]

Well now you have a meatball mix.

[@lagreengavanlife]

Crazy! This is the first Notification I have gotten for your channel in a long time 🤔

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

That is crazy 🤪. Lol. Thank you for watching. 👍😁❤

[@lagreengavanlife]

I live homemade hamburgers yummy 😋 the best!

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Thank you. 👍😊❤️

[@AnneHeyns]

It looks good Melonie♦

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Thank you. 👍😁❤

[@JHixon-bi8ok]

Yum! I love a good, juicy beef burger. 😋👍

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Thank you. 👍😊❤️

[@sittinknittinNlistenin]

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[@paulagrissom9114]

Looks good! Love burgers, just don't care for the 'slug' name

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

I get that. Thank you for watching. 👍😊❤️

[@maryblushes7189]

Yeah, not a bug but a slang name for a nickle size metal slug, used to fool machines into accepting the slug instead of a nickle or quarter. So they are calling it, kinda fake. Looked good though..

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

@maryblushes7189 this recipe is actually from the 1930s. During that time slug was slang for a nickel. These burgers were sold for a nickel. Hence the name slug burger. 👍😁❤

[@maryblushes7189]

@MelonieTriesRecipes my granny was born in 1898 and daddy in 1927 so I actually am familiar with the time and, yes, even slugs. Some slugs worked as quarters😘 and were good in coin operated telephones as well as parking meters. 😁 I know cause I did as a kid. Most recipes such as these lasted into the 1960s as thrifty food was still popular during WWII, post war 1950s and the early 60s. American style goulash was filling, meat streaching, cheap and yummy too. You could feed an entire family using a half pound of ground meat!There were lots of these recipes, mock apple pie that really did taste like apple pie, but not an apple in it, just ritz crackers snd spices etc. So many yummy things. Slum gullion is another 😘

[@SE-ji2tj]

I've never heard of a slug burger. This is interesting!

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

Yeah. This is a very old school recipe. A nickel was referred to as a slug. So, in the 1930-1940s this burger cost a nickel. 👍😁❤

[@lifewithchristine72]

Hello Gorgeous 😊

[@everscuppers4012]

Hmm another way to use those potatoes.

[@MelonieTriesRecipes]

And the burgers were pretty good too. I'll definitely do this recipe again. 👍😊❤