Sloppy Joes for 500
Use 5 roasters, with 20 pounds of ground beef per roaster. (Quantity of ingredients per roaster is listed in parentheses) Makes about 100 sandwiches per roaster.
100# ground beef, 90/10 lean. (20#/roaster)
10 cups dried onions: Mix 1 cup/10# beef and brown it together
10 TBSP chili powder (2 TBSP/roaster)
6 ¼ cups brown sugar (1 ¼ cups/roaster)
10 TBSP salt (2 TBSP/roaster)
10 TBSP worchestershire sauce (2 TBSP/roaster)
10 TBSP mustard (2 TBSP/roaster)
8 50oz cans tomato soup (about 1 ½ cans/roaster)
30 cups ketchup (6 cups/roaster)
Brown hamburger with onion, then add rest of ingredients and simmer for 1 hour.
Here are two original versions of Sloppy Joe recipes that were given to me. I combined the two to create the large quantity recipe above. Both of these are great recipes. They will make 8-10 sandwiches
Sloppy Joes #1
2 lbs. hamburger, browned with 1/4 c. dried onions (may also add a bit of garlic)
1 can tomato soup
1/4 c. brown sugar
2 T. ketchup
1 T. mustard
1 T. A-1 sauce
salt and pepper to taste
Sloppy Joe Recipe #2
3 pounds hamburger
3 tablespoons brown sugar
3 tablespoons lemon juice
3/4 tsp chili powder
3 tsp salt
3 tsp worcestershire sauce
3 tsp mustard
1 can tomato soup
1 cup ketchup
1 onion (chopped)
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