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    Home » Recipes » Amish Main Dishes

    Regina Mast's Super Sloppy Joes

    Published: Jul 7, 2021 · Updated: Jul 7, 2021 by Kevin Williams | 1 Comment

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    Who remembers Manwich? This is a canned sauce one adds to a skillet of ground beef, cook, stir, and serve on buns. But, Manwhich (you can read more about the history of it here) really is the same thing as "sloppy joes", which, to me, is better homemade. Make your own sauce and stir it into a pan of ground beef and you'll get a delicious homemade version of Manwich.

    Sloppy Joes have caught on among the Amish, too. It’s just so easy and full of flavor that the dish is tailor-made for a busy Amish home. Most Amish homemakers have a ready supply of hamburger from home-butchered meat. So all you really have to do is add some seasonings and sauces and heat and you have got yourself a ready-made meal.

    The liquid smoke is popular among the Amish, but it’s certainly not something you have to have to make this. So feel free to make this recipe without the smoke.


    SIGH, my school cafeterias used to serve sloppy joes and I thought they were OK. When I was at home, I would eat my Sloppy Joe’s by spooning the meat mixture onto each half of a split hamburger bun and eating it with a fork. It was like that way I got double sloppy joe’s. But at school, they were served as a sandwich and you just eat it like that and it would be sloppy, true to name, and, yeah, I always eat it on two slices of bread.

    Regina Mast's Super Sloppy Joes
    Regina Mast's Super Sloppy Joes, this is the recipe as written out by Regina Mast.

    Homemade "sloppy joes" is a popular dish in Amish kitchens. Although more than one Amish cook has told me she likes to fix them but hates to eat them (because they are, as the name implies, a bit sloppy).  This is a recipe that comes from an Amish woman named Regina Mast who lives in the large Ethridge, TN Amish community.  Because of where this recipe comes from the inclusion of sorghum in the recipe is not a surprise, the Ethridge community is sorghum molasses country!

    Super Sloppy Joes Ingredients

    Part of the appeal of this is the ingredients are very simple.

    So delicious!

    Mustard is a great addition to the flavor mix of this super recipe for super sloppy joes!

    Super Sloppy Joes

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    • 📋 Instructions
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    🍔 Super Sloppy Jeos 

    • 1 pound hamburger
    • 1 large onion
    • 1 cup ketchup
    • 1 teaspoon sorghum molasses
    • 1 teaspoon mustard
    • 1 /2 teaspoon vinegar
    • 1 /2 teaspoon hot sauce (optional)
    • 1 teaspsoon Worcestershire sauce
    • ½ teaspoon liquid smoke

    📋 Instructions

    1. Chop onion and fry with meat.
    2. Add rest of the ingredients.
    3. Thicken with flour if necessary.
    4. Serve on bread or buns.

    More Amish Recipes Using Hamburger

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    Simple Sloppy Joes - another Amish version

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    Super Sloppy Joes

    Super Sloppy Joes

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    Course Main Course
    Cuisine American, Amish

    Ingredients
      

    •   1 pound hamburger
    • 1 large onion
    • 1 cup ketchup
    • 1 teaspoon sorghum molasses
    • 1 teaspoon mustard
    • 1 /2 teaspoon vinegar
    • 1 /2 teaspoon hot sauce (optional)
    • 1 teaspsoon Worcestershire sauce
    • ½ teaspoon liquid smoke

    Instructions
     

    •  Chop onion and fry with meat.
    •   Add rest of the ingredients.
    • Thicken with flour if necessary.
    •  Serve on bread or buns.
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    1. Carolyn

      June 08, 2016 at 10:03 pm

      Except for the hamburger, and onion, that sounds like the recipe that I use to make homemade BBQ sauce. I got the recipe from grandma's molasses years ago.I lost the recipe and have been making it by memory. On my latest jar of molasses the recipe is on the back. I did leave out a couple things such as dried mustard, and hot sauce. I will omit the hot sauce anyway. It is very good.

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