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Skriven 2009-07-18 17:31:30 av BURTON FORD (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Bat
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Hi Michael       7/18/09 5:28 PM


BF> Prairie Dog 1896 Wild West Junk Food Recipe
BF> 5. Bat Masterson
 
ml-> I can't find a decent source that can trace the recipe to Bat
ml-> Masterson - the first place it seems to have come up is in a
ml-> weird little cookbook put out by a sporting goods store in
ml-> Minnesota in about 1961.

I could not believe it either, but a man whose Meal Master is unavailable
doesn't fuss about the authenticity of a recipe.  [g]  

BF> 4. "It makes the usual catsup and mustard wiener sandwich taste
BF> very poor in comparison"
BF> 5. Bat Masterson
 
ml-> I really don't believe that the usual catsup and mustard wiener
ml-> sandwich was usual in 1896. 1961, I would grant.

From 1891 thru 1901 Bat apparently lived in Denver CO writing for
newspapers.  He moved to New York City in 1902, where he was a Sports
Writer.  He died in 1922 from a heart attack at his newspaper desk.

Within that time frame, the following items seem to at least give Bat
access to the dog in a sandwich... particularly Feuchtwanger's frankfurter
in bread in the 1880s, and Feltman's hot sandwich a decade later.

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http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19910526&slug=1285453
Feuchtwanger is the man credited with enclosing frankfurters in bread
(allegedly after he ran out of plates) in the 1880s. 

A decade later Feltman, a Coney Island pie baker and peddler, decided to
switch to hot sandwiches instead, piling hot sauerkraut and mustard over
the sausages. He prospered and later opened his own restaurant, Feltman's
German Beer Garden. 

[Burt's note: a former employee named Nathan opened Nathan's Famous in
1913.] 
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http://homecooking.about.com/od/foodhistory/a/hotdoghistory.htm
German Americans brought us weinerwurst, German for Vienna sausage, which
eventually became shortened to wiener.  ..... By the late 1920's, weinie
roasts became the rage, with guests bringing their own hot dogs to roast
over an open fire.
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I can't believe it's for real either with no Bat/wiener hits but the one
site.  On the other hand, why would anyone bother?   So maybe he did write
it sometime during his long newspaper career.     

Burt
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