You may not suspect this from my current status asMeatboyExtraordinaire, but I was one of thosepicky-eaterkids until I was about 20 years old. I wouldn’t even eat spaghetti, which seems like being a real pill coming from an 8-year-old. But there was one food among all others that would turn me into a ravenous beefmonster: a giant tray of my mom’s faux-White-Castle sliders.
您知道大多数孩子在无腔牙医访问后如何得到冰淇淋吗？我在进入芝加哥的旅行中，在白城堡里得到了白色城堡的所有美味佳肴。真实的末日东西。由于我们可悲的是在我们郊区家附近的任何地方都失散了白色城堡的位置，所以我妈妈在特殊场合做了这些滑块，以让我吃东西，任何东西！它起作用了！在马特·范·兰杜特（Matt Van Landuyt）的十个生日聚会上，我消耗了足够多的东西，以至于我短暂地瞥见了创作的秘密。
It’s been years since I’ve had one of my mom’s sliders, so I reached out to her for the recipe. Look at this great mom handwriting!
The recipe is truly Midwestern in its straightforward, no-bull approach. Never one to dirty the stove unnecessarily, Mom squished one large beef patty into her trusty jelly roll pan, baked it, and cut into squares to place into mini dinner rolls with cheese and pickles (and mustard, if it we were approximating a Krystal-type slider). If spreading one pound of meat over an 11-by-17-inch jelly roll pan seems unachievable to you, then Mom thinks you’re a quitter. “Keep pressing!” she texted me after I expressed the same doubt.
有一个，实际上只有一个，坚持忠实的娱乐活动：我找不到那些在我一生中32-a-pack的小包装卷。国王的夏威夷帝国显然吞噬了所有晚餐竞争对手。因此，我提高了牛肉的数量，然后切换了锅以适应国王卷的尺寸稍大。
It’s always nerve-wracking to revisit an old favorite. On a visit home a few years ago, I learned that my favorite childhood hot dog stand, in fact, sucks. But the first bite of these sliders assured me that you can indeed go home again, if only for a little bit, eating over the sink with half a High Life.
And what did Mom think of my version of her classic? No idea—she’s been a vegan since the mid-2000s. What a twist! But for me, a guy who probably averages one slider session a week at the White Castle near where I work, these are remarkably close in flavor and general ethos. (The secret: soup mix!) And since this seems like as good a place as any: Love you, Mom! Thanks for putting up with a surly teen who at one point owned and wore four different Slipknot T-shirts.
No go out there and eat an unconscionable amount of sliders. Do it for Ma.
Mom’s HomemadeWhite Castle sliders
- 1 medium white onion, halved and sliced very thin (on a mandoline if you have one)
- 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
- 1 1/4 lbs. ground beef
- 1 packet Lipton onion soup mix
- 1/3 cup Italian (not panko) bread crumbs
- 1 egg, beaten
- American cheese, to top
- 莳萝泡菜片，最上面
- 12-pack Hawaiian dinner rolls, split
Get the sliced onions caramelizing while you prepare everything else. Heat the oil in a 12-inch skillet, add the onions, stir to coat, and enact the long, slow dance of adding water and scraping every time the onions start to sizzle.
Meanwhile, add the beef, soup mix, bread crumbs, and egg to a bowl. Fold together until the mixture is just firming up. You’re going to mix this a lot more than a typical burger, but do it as little as you can to keep it from going full racquetball on you. (Miss me with your “Hey wait yer makin’ a meatloaf!” takes.)
Evenly spread the mixture into a 9-by-13-inch rimmed sheet pan, refrigerate, and preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. When the oven comes to temperature, remove the beef from the fridge and top it with the caramelized onions. Bake for 12-15 minutes. If you’ve sculpted correctly (yes, this is art), the entirety of the pan should come to temperature at the same time.
沥干液体（基于心脏地板的烹饪的缺点之一），如果您立即食用，请在肉鸡下面放上奶酪和弹出式融化。从烤箱中取出，将其切成12个均匀的部分，然后制作一些滑块。
If you’re feeling fancy, pop the cardboard tray of split rolls out of the bag, cover with a dish towel or parchment paper, and steam them for a minute or two before assembling the burgers.
These taste great served immediately, but Mom’s secret trick was always to make extras, reassemble the rolls in neat order in the tray, and put that back into the bag so we’d have a second day (usually never a third) of slider leftovers. Just pop a few out, microwave, and enjoy. Thirty seconds wrapped in a damp paper towel and the leftovers are nearly good as new.