I wouldn’t have wanted to be in on the brainstorming session for this recipe.
Coming up with the dish and ingredients, not a problem. But the best name they could come up with was “Frankfurters in Crust”?
AuthorRetroRuth
From Josie McCarthy’s Favorite TV Recipes
Tested Recipe!
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Soften gelatin on cold water; add to boiling water in the bowl, stirring until dissolved. Add clams, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, pepper, and parsley, stirring until blended.
Pour into greased loaf pan; cool and chill until firm enough to cut into cubes or cube in the pan, or unmold and cube. Serve on salad greens; top with Russian dressing.
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Ingredients
Directions
Soften gelatin on cold water; add to boiling water in the bowl, stirring until dissolved. Add clams, Worcestershire sauce, lemon juice, pepper, and parsley, stirring until blended.
Pour into greased loaf pan; cool and chill until firm enough to cut into cubes or cube in the pan, or unmold and cube. Serve on salad greens; top with Russian dressing.
Yield: Makes 4 servings
Notes
I guess the alternatives are all worse.
- “Pigs in Sleeping Bag”
- “Crescent Roll Surprise”
- “I Swear It’s Not Just Hot Dogs”
The biggest challenge of this recipe was what they meant by “mustard pickle relish.” Relish made from mustard pickles? Some obscure mid-century condiment? One of Heinz’s 57 flavors?
We just mixed regular relish into mustard.
Spread over dough and covered with hot dogs, it looked a bit less scary. Almost normal — as normal as things ever get in my strange, strange kitchen.
The crescent roll dough more or less held together during the baking process, except for one minor break on the side where mustard tried to make a run for it.
Interestingly, the sesame seeds on top made this look a whole lot more professional.
Eating was a little bit confusing. Is it finger food or a sandwich, like a typical hot dog? Since it’s got the fancy “frankfurters in crust” name, is cutlery mandated?
Buzz thought it was pretty good. I thought it was OK.
The kids… well, one just ate the mustard-pickle bread, one just ate the hot dogs, and the youngest took one bite and decided he’d rather go to bed early.
I have extremely strange kids.
Verdict: Not bad.
From the tasting notes:
Perfect for anybody who likes mustard and relish on their hot dogs. Dough was a little thin but worked ok as a crust. Does go very nicely with a Waldorf Salad (crunchy and sweet to contrast the spicy/salty frankfurter thing).
OMG, I think they’re still doing this. I THINK I recently saw a magazine ad with a kid and a mom rolling crescent rolls around hot dogs…
Just a variation on hot dog roll-ups. Slit the hot dogs half way through, add a piece of cheese and roll up in a crescent roll. Bake. Kids love them! It has been a standard for years.
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FYI: Mustard pickle relish is also called 'hot dog relish'. It's exactly what it sounds like so you were correct. Here in Alabama we can get is as 'mustard pickle relish' from the store.
That’s the stuff! Looks more or less like what I whipped up 😀 Thanks!
(I knew that was Waldorf Salad in the picture, I knew it!!!) This looks pretty tasty, but the original and best way is: buy a pack of Hillshire Farms little bitty cocktail franks. Buy a pack of crescent rolls, and open these. cut a strip of dough from each triangle, 5 strips of dough (cut in triangles, rectangles, does not matter) per wedge. That makes about 40 bits of crescent roll dough, which matches up near perfect with the 40 cocktail franks. So, wrap a bit of dough around each little dog, and bake 400 degrees 8-10 minutes, till lightly brown. A MUST for New Years Eve!
Lassie has it just right. Stick a fancy toothpick in each one, and you are ready for a party!
I wonder if perhaps they called it ‘in crust’ because they were going for the English translation of ‘en croute.’
I was thinking mustard pickle relish maybe meant the British condiment picalilli, which I hate and my boyfriend loves to torment me with.