Baked Burgers

6 hamburger buns
1 lb ground beef
2 T finely chopped onion
1 t salt
1/8 t pepper
2 cans (8oz?) tomato sauce

Hollow out centers of bun tops.  Crumble removed bread and mix with beef, onion, salt, pepper and 1 1/2 cans of sauce.  Place bun tops on bottoms and fill hollowed cavity with beef mix.  Bake on sheet pan 375 degrees for 20 minutes.  Spoon remaining sauce on top of beef and bake another 5 minutes.

This recipe came from an old 1950's magazine; Time or Life or something like that.  It was one of those recipe ads.  The size of the can for tomato sauce was not specified....I can only imagine they probably only sold one size at the time.   Most of the recipes in the magazine in general seemed very....bleeech.  This I thought might have some potential, so decided to give it a whirl.

It wasn't awful.  While mixing the beef, I could tell then that there was too much liquid.   One can of sauce would probably have been plenty.  The texture was generally mushy.  I imagine this is what happens to meatloaf if you forget to put an egg in it.  At the outset, I had been afraid the buns would burn, but really what happened is they toasted and got really hard.  I can be kind and say that it was a texture contrast.

I won't be keeping this recipe card.  I suppose with some tinkering it could be something different, but for my trouble I'd rather just make Sloppy Joes.