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- From: yost@mekon.mro.dec.com (Gregg Yost)
- Subject: Cincinnati Chili
- Message-ID: <YOST.94Jul25111312@mekon.mro.dec.com>
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA, USA
- Date: Tue, 26 Jul 1994 11:50:17 GMT
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- Here are some recipes I got from the net years ago:
-
- From: eburns@deimos.ads.com (Edward Burns)
- Date: 16 May 88 17:06:29 GMT
-
- The good recipes have both cinnamon and unsweetened chocolate....also,
- the ground beef is not browned, but rather boiled. That's the only way
- to get the beef separated into tiny bits, suitable for spaghetti or coneys.
-
- Anyway, here it is:
-
- Cincinnati Chili (ref: Cincinnati Enquirer 1/18/79)
-
- 1 quart water 5 whole allspice
- 2 lbs. ground beef 5 whole cloves
- 2 medium onions, finely grated 1/2 oz. unsweetened chocolate
- 4 garlic cloves 1 tsp. cinnamon
- 2 8-oz. cans of tomato sauce 1-1/2 tsp. red pepper
- 2 Tlb. vinegar 1 tsp. ground cumin
- 2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 4 Tlb. chili powder
- 1-1/2 tsp. salt 1 large bay leaf, whole
-
- Directions: add ground beef to water in four-quart pot. Stir until
- beef separates into a fine texture. Boil slowly for 30 minutes. Add
- all other ingredients. Stir to blend, bringing to a boil. Reduce heat
- and simmer uncovered for about three hours. (pot may be covered the
- last hour or so, after desired consistency is reached). Should be
- refrigerated overnight, so that fat can be lifted from top before
- reheating.
-
- Serving: serve over spaghetti (2-way); add grated mild cheddar (3-way);
- add chopped onion -- before cheese (4-way); add drained red kidney beans
- (5-way); have oyster crackers and tobasco on the side.
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- 1 pound chuck, ground *fine* 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
- (twice in a meat grinder) 1/2 teaspoon tumeric
- 2 medium onions, 1/2 teaspoon marjoram
- chopped fine 1/2 teaspoon allspice
- 2 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1 cup tomato sauce 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 2 tablespoon ketchup 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1 cup water 1/4 teaspoon mace
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar 1/4 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 tablespoon chili powder 1/4 teaspoon ground cardamom
- 1 tablespoon paprika 1/2 dry bay leaf, crumbled
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 1/2 ounce unsweetened chocolate,
- grated
-
- Salt a large cast-iron skillet. Turn heat to medium and add
- meat, onions, and garlic. Cook until all meat is browned. Add tomato
- sauce, ketchup, water, and vinegar. As mixture begins to boil, add
- everything else. Adjust spices to taste, adding more salt if it needs
- perking up, tumeric and cumin for a sweatier chili flavor, cinnamon,
- cloves, and mace if you want it sweeter, cardamom for more bang,
- unsweetened chocolate for body.
- Cover and simmer at very low heat for about 1 hour, stirring and
- tasting occasionally, adding tomato juice if it is getting too dry to
- ladle up easily.
-
-
- Constructing the Chili
-
- 8 ounces thick spaghetti 1 pound Wisconsin Cheddar cheese,
- 1 16-ounce can red grated fine, as fluffy as
- kidney beans you can make it
- 2 onions, chopped
-
- 1. The bottom layer is always spaghetti, the thickest you can
- find. In fact, we found none in our supermarket that was thick
- enough, so we got perciatelli -- long, thin macaroni. We broke it
- into 4-inch pieces and boiled in salted water to which 2 tablespoons
- of olive oil were added. For a touch of swank, melt a stick of butter
- into the just-cooked noodles before you dish them out.
- You will need about 2 to 3 ounces per serving. You want them
- soft enough to cut with a fork, but not so soft they lose their oomph.
- Remember, they are the support layer for four other ingredients.
- Spread them out to cover the bottom of a small plate (preferably
- oval).
- 2. Next comes the chili. Ladle on enough to cover the noodles.
- 3. Kidney beans. One 16-ounce can. Wash, heat with 2 cups
- water, then drain. Don't season them or do anything fancy, though.
- They're here more for texture than for taste. Spoon a sparse layer
- atop the chili.
- 4. Chopped onions. Spread them out, to taste, over the beans.
- 5. Quickly now, so it melts a bit, spread the grated cheese to
- cover everything. Don't skip. Cheese should completely blanket the
- plate, enough so that you can pat it into a neat mound with your
- hands, just the way they do in Cincinnati.
-
- You may, if desired, omit either the beans, or onions, or both, for
- Three-Way or Four-Way Chili.
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