Recipe for mock hot dogs

When meat is high-priced and scarce (as it was during World War II), citizens came up with creative ways to get around the problem, such as “mock” meats. On the Texas Star Theater with Fred Allen, one woman on the street (later Mrs. Nussbaum on Allen’s Alley) had a recipe for mock hot dogs.


Take one old rubber glove. Butter well inside. Stuff fingers with chopped eggplant, wild rice and bread crumbs. Add pinch of flower and yeast. Put glove in slow oven and bake for two hours. Cut the fingers off the rubber gloves and you have four mock hot dogs.

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