by RetroRuth | Oct 7, 2015 | Halloween, Holiday, , Main Dishes | 10 comments
‘Tis the season of frights and spooks andHalloween mayhem! For October I thought I would highlight some the the more…creep-tastic of our recipes. Some of these were supposed to be Halloween-themed, and some of them just happen to turn out like that. This is a good example of the latter. This wormy hot dog main dish would be hilarious served at your Halloween bash, and though the suggested sauce is edible it is a bit bland, so feel free tospice it up however your heart desires. Buahahaha!!! I mean..enjoy!
Soooo…I am not exactly sure what happened to this dish. All I know is that it turned out pretty hilarious.
This is a pile of curled up hot dogs.
Yep.
This is Curly Franks!
AuthorRetroRuth
From 100 Ways to Be Original In All Your Cooking, Lea & Perrins, 1964
Tested Recipe!
1 pound hot dogs
10 oz condensed tomato soupdo not reconstitute
8 oz canned tomato sauce
½ cup water
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 chopped onion
1
Quarter frankfurters lengthwise in long strips. Combine the remaining ingredients. Add sliced frankfurters and simmer for 10 minutes. Frankfurters will curl while cooking in the sauce.
2
Serve over hamburger buns, small hero loaves or with thin spaghetti.
CategoryHalloween, Hot Dogs, Main Dish, Cooking MethodSimmer, StovetopTags#condensedtomatosoup, #frankfurters, #greenonion, #hotdog, #tomatosauce, #tomatosoup, #worcestershiresauce
Ingredients
1 pound hot dogs
10 oz condensed tomato soupdo not reconstitute
8 oz canned tomato sauce
½ cup water
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 chopped onion
Directions
1
Quarter frankfurters lengthwise in long strips. Combine the remaining ingredients. Add sliced frankfurters and simmer for 10 minutes. Frankfurters will curl while cooking in the sauce.
2
Serve over hamburger buns, small hero loaves or with thin spaghetti.
Curly Franks
IngredientsDirections
These are the moments of Mid-Century Menu that I cherish: A whole pound of hot dogs sliced into quarters.
As I looked at this mass of cut up hot dogs in tomato soup, I realized I should have saved this one for Halloween. I haven’t seen something look this much like a pile of worms since the canned green beans in Liver Pate En Masque. In fact, I am pretty sure that if you are having a Halloween party, you should break this bad boy out.
In the serving suggestions for this recipe, you could either serve these on a bun or thin spaghetti. I didn’t have any thin spaghetti or buns, but egg noodles worked just fine. They also highlighted the worminess of this dish very, very well.
“So, what do they taste like?”
“co*cktail weenies in sauce. Full-sized co*cktail weenies.”
The Verdict: Looks Creepy, Tastes Bland
From The Tasting Notes –
Totally edible, even if it did look disgusting. We ate almost all of it for dinner. It ended up just tasting like tomato sauce, onion and hot dogs. Over all, pretty bland. I was glad that we ended up going with noodles instead of putting it on a bun, because it ended up having a lot of goopy sauce that wouldn’t have gone well on a bun. If you do decide to make these and eat them on a bun, use a slotted spoon to drain the worms…I mean…weenies, before you serve them.
Amyon October 7, 2015 at 3:57 am
My 4 year old, reading over my shoulder, said, “it looks like a brain.”
Betsy Murgatroydon October 7, 2015 at 6:31 am
This is a great low budget base recipe, for sure. I might add a can of Hunts seasoned tomato sauce and Campbell’s Mexican Style tomato soup.
Dawn Gilmoreon October 7, 2015 at 3:30 pm
You canmake hot dog octopuss*s by slicing the hot dogs into strips 2/3 of the way up, leaving the “tentacles” attached to the “body” so to speak.
Heat in boiling water and the “tentacles” will curl up and out.
Perch them on a bed of baked beans or mac and cheese for a Halloween supper for the kids.
Ruthon October 7, 2015 at 7:09 pm
OMG! I think this is something my mom used to make for us when we were kids, back in the early 60’s! I think she used ketchup or something else, but we loved it. Maybe it was her way of stretching things since there were 6 of us kids and we were always hungry.
Ruthon October 7, 2015 at 7:09 pm
OMG! I think this is something my mom used to make for us when we were kids, back in the early 60’s! I think she used ketchup or something else, but we loved it. Maybe it was her way of stretching things since there were 6 of us kids and we were always hungry.
Holley Atkinsonon January 31, 2016 at 5:19 pm
OMG. This looks VERY much like a recipe that was passed down from my mother to me and my siblings in the 1960s… Except that our version had cheese, and the whole thing was baked in a casserole. Check it out here: https://oldestvocation.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/on-food-from-tuna-fish-casserole-to-the-age-of-arugula/
Holley Atkinsonon January 31, 2016 at 5:21 pm
Same here! see my Comment once it’s approved 🙂
https://oldestvocation.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/on-food-from-tuna-fish-casserole-to-the-age-of-arugula/Sherryon February 10, 2016 at 8:06 pm
My mom made it too, but she cut the hot dogs in coins and browned them before adding the sauce. It was delicious and I loved it. Maybe I’ll make some!
R Ryle Mon March 7, 2016 at 2:03 pm
I see this recipe working because it reminds me of Japanese and Filipino style spaghetti, both have hotdogs (sliced) and instead of tomato soup, they use ketchup as the other tomato product or for the Japanese version, just ketchup.
Barbaraon March 15, 2018 at 2:46 pm
I have made these for years with a slight variation.
Sauté onions in butter, add 1 Tbls sugar, Tobasco sauce to sugar taste and a little bit of liquid smoke. Stir into cooked egg noodles. The noodles will soak up some of the sauce.
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