Hemingway Burgers Recipes

Steps:

• 1. Break up meat, mix with garlic, onion, and dry seasonings in a bowl. 2. Refrigerate bowl for 10-15 minutes 3. Add relish, capers, wine, and egg to mixture 4. Refrigerate mixture for 15 minutes 5. Divide mixture into 4 patties by hand, about 1" thick. 6. Add oil to frying pan, heat on high, but not smoking 7. Add patties to pan, turn down heat, and cook for 4 minutes. 8. Remove pan from burner, return heat to high. 9. Flip patties, return pan to burner. After 1 minute, reduce heat, cook 3 more minutes.

Steps:

• Break up the meat with a fork and scatter the garlic, onion and dry seasonings over it, then mix them into the meat with a fork or your fingers.
• Let the bowl of meat sit out of the icebox for ten or fifteen minutes while you set the table and make the salad.
• Add the relish, capers, everything else including wine and let the meat sit, quietly marinating, for another ten minutes if possible.
• Now make your fat, juicy patties with your hands. The patties should be an inch thick, and soft in texture but not runny.
• Have the oil in your frying pan hot but not smoking when you drop in the patties and then turn the heat down and fry the burgers about four minutes.
• Take the pan off the burner and turn the heat high again.
• Flip the burgers over, put the pan back on the hot fire, then after one minute, turn the heat down again and cook another three minutes.
• Both sides of the burgers should be crispy brown and the middle pink and juicy.
• Time does not include sitting times.