If We're in Flint, This Must be Koegel's

Folks in Flint like their Coneys every bit as much as the people down I-75 in Detroit.

However, while you might find sausages from Dearborn or National in Detroit, you'll have a hard time explaining to Flint diners why you would serve anything but a locally made Koegel.

The Koegel Web site says that the company, started in 1916 by Albert Koegel, now makes about 35 products that are sold almost exclusively in Michigan and delivered to each individual store. A new plant, just off Bristol Road, near Bishop Airport in Flint, is strategically situated near I-75 and I-69.

We have one beef with the Web site. It hosts a number of recipes including chili sauce both Detroit style and Flint style. The problem is that both chili sauce recipes contain tomato sauce, yet we have been told that neither sauce should contain tomatoes.

Can anyone help us out?

          

Comments

[Beth in Chicago]

Flint style sauce does have tomato paste. This is more or less what an "authentic" Flint style coney sauce recipe would be:

1 T butter
1 T margarine
1 1/2 lbs. ground beef (don't brown)
2 medium onions (chopped)
1 garlic clove (diced as small as possible)
2-3 T chili powder
1 T mustard
1 6oz can tomato paste
6oz water
salt & pepper to taste
4-5 koegel viennas (ground)

Combine everything except hot dogs and simmer until thick. (Do not brown the ground beef first...)

Grind the hot dogs and add to the sauce. Stir. Simmer
20 minutes longer.

Always use Koegel's Vienna hot dogs and steam your buns! Serve with chopped onions and yellow mustard.

[Dan J]

I have been looking for the authentic recipe and think I found it but it does call for tomatos. The Koegel site, however has Koegel sauce that sounds like the right stuff. http://www.koegelmeats.com/products/db.cgi?hot+dog+chili.

Has anyone tried it?