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From: Tony
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 8:31 AM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com <>
Subject: Horn & Hardart Coffee
I was speaking with a gentleman whom worked at H&H. In conversation about coffee H&H came up & he informed me
that when the chef made coffee he added an unknown quantity (he indicated a small amount) of ground chicory.
He indicated that this was the ingredient that gave H&H the unique flavor.
Not knowing the size of the commercial coffee urn I can’t imagine how much chicory would be added.
Hello Tony,
That makes some sense, since New Orleans French Market coffee is a mixture of coffee and chicory.
Thanks for writing.
Phaed
From: Tony
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 8:51 AM
To: Phaedrus <>
Subject: Re: Horn & Hardart Coffee
Any idea of the urn size & amount of chicory added?
Hi Tony,
You can buy coffee & chicory blends in most grocery stores. Try these brands: Community Coffee & Chicory and Cafe du Monde Coffee & Chicory.
If you insist on making the blend yourself, this article (How Much Chicory?) says try:
one part chicory to three parts coffee or 1 to 10 if you are going to drink it black, 1 to 5 if you’re going to add milk to make café au lait.
Adjust the ratio to your taste. I wouldn’t be concerned about urn size. Just make your mixture and use the coffee/chicory mixture as you
normally would use straight coffee.
These sites might also interest you:
New Orleans Chicory Coffee
Chicory Coffee
Phaed
From: Tony
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Re: Coffee & chicory
Date: Monday, June 19, 2017 4:02 PM
Thank you for the input. Currently imbibing on Lacas City Blend, originally a Philadelphia business
now operating in Pennsauken NJ. Their plant burned down many years ago.
From: Donna
Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2017 2:47 PM
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com
Subject: Flourless hazelnut cake
Hi Uncle Phaedrus,
I am looking for the recipe for a cake made of ground hazelnuts. I was given the recipe by my Spanish
neighbor when I lived in Mexico City. Unfortunately, in the move back to Canada, the recipe was lost.
I remember the cake was chocolate, dense, moist, not too sweet, and kept well. It would have been one
9" round and I believe you brushed the top with melted jam before pouring over a chocolate ganache.
There may have been some flour in the recipe but, if so, it was minimal and I can't remember if there
was any leavening agent. I think it had 2 cups of ground hazelnuts??? Sorry to be so vague but it has
been about 20 years and I only recently discovered your site.
Any help in locating something similar would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Donna
Hi Donna,
I appreciate the difficulty of remembering details about a recipe from 20 years ago. However, details are
what allow me to locate the correct recipe and to eliminate the incorrect ones. Details like: the exact
name of the recipe, the ethnicity (if any) of the recipe (I tried searching for “Spanish Hazelnut Cake”
and “Mexican Hazelnut Cake”, but found nothing like your description), and the flavor of the jam called
for in the recipe. The other things that you remember weren’t of any help. Most of the hazelnut cakes
that I found were layer cakes, and very few called for any jam. Those that did call for jam failed to
match your description in other ways.
I’ll post this for reader input, but you might decide to use one of these cakes instead:
Candis
Daring Baker Duluth
Bylelush
Phaed
From: "+.....131472@"
To: phaedrus@hungrybrowser.com<
Subject: Hot Shoppes Seasoning Salt
Date: Friday, June 16, 2017 10:56 AM
I'm looking for the seasoning salt that Hot Shoppe use to have on the table I use to put it on my
Mighty Mo sandwich have been looking everywhere for the recipe or the seasoning so I can order it.
Please help...
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I have a copy of the “Hot Shoppes Cookbook – Sixty Years of American Cookery” that was published by
Marriott in 1987. There is no recipe in it for seasoning salt. I also searched the web, but could find
no mention at all of Hot Shoppes “seasoned salt” or “table seasoning” or “flavored salt.”
From experience with other restaurant chains, I expect that this seasoning may have been made at a
central commissary or by a third party vendor and then shipped to the local Hot Shoppes pre-mixed.
If so, local Hot Shoppes employees would not have known what was in it.
I’ll post this for reader input. Perhaps a former Hot Shoppes employee will see it and respond.
You might have some success by joining this Facebook Group: Facebook Group
and posting your request there. The group appears to consist of former Hot Shoppes employees.
Phaed
Hey Phaed:
As far as I know Hot Shoppes used Lawry's Seasoned salt, even at the tables.
Awhile back, the New York Times printed this recipe for the Mighty Mo burger.
Timm in Oregon
Hot Shoppes' Mighty Mo Burger
Ingredients:
For the Sauce:
1/4 cup ketchup
1/8 cup Heinz chili sauce
1 teaspoon A-1 sauce
1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
2 drops Tabasco sauce
1/4 cup pickle relish
1/2 cup mayonnaise
For the burgers:
1 pound ground beef
Lawry's seasoned salt
White pepper, freshly ground to taste
2 tablespoons soft butter or margarine
8 sesame seed hamburger buns
4 slices American cheese
Iceberg lettuce, shredded
8 bread and-butter pickle chips
Instructions:
For the Sauce: Combine all the sauce ingredients until well blended. Refrigerate until needed.
For the Burgers: Preheat a grill or broiler. Divide meat into eight portions of equal size,
and shape each portion into a thin patty four to six inches in diameter then season to taste
with Lawry's seasoned salt and white pepper.
Spread margarine on top and bottom of four hamburger buns, and on the bottoms of four additional
buns; reserve the four tops without margarine for another use. Lightly toast buns, and set aside.
Grill the hamburgers on one side, turn them over, and top four of them with one slice of cheese.
Grill to medium rare, then remove from heat.
To Assemble: Spread 2 teaspoons of Mighty Mo sauce on bottom of each of four buns. Top sauce with
some shredded lettuce and a burger without cheese. Top with the additional bun bottom, and spread
with 2 more teaspoons of sauce. Top with a cheeseburger patty, and put two pickle chips on top of
cheese. Add top of bun. Serve with French fries.
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