How to Make New York System Weiner Recipe. Step-by-Step. Lightly brown half of the chopped onion in butter. Add hamburger and stir until the hamburger loosens into small pieces. Add rest of spices. Simmer on very low heat for at least 2 hours. Now it's time to build the weiner.
Heat soybean oil in a 2 quart saucepan. Add onion and simmer until brown. Stir in spice and then crumble beef into mixture. Simmer, covered, for 1 hour and stir occasionally and mash with a potato masher for finer consistency. If the sauce is too dry after a half hour, add more soybean oil. Also, when we serve hot wieners, the rolls are steamed.
The Beard builds our dinner on his arm, showing the assembly of your typical wiener: meat, mustard, meat sauce, onion, and celery salt. Because hot wieners are such a local food, it’s hard to even describe how they’re supposed to taste.
Speaking of ordering them, there is a very specific way to order wieners. Wieners come “all the way”, which is a wiener with mustard, meat sauce, onions, and celery salt, in that order . Don’t try to change the order of the toppings, it’s not going to happen, it just isn’t done.