Cincinatti Chili again

[Greg Pulliam]

I'm home now, and have found a recipe for Cincinnati Chili.  The
simplest thing to do is to state how it differs from "standard" chili
recipes:

1. Beans are not cooked in the mixture, but separately.
2. The mixture contains ground cinnamon.
3. The mixture contains unsweetened chocolate.
4. It is served over pasta: chili mixture first, beans on top of
this, (American) cheese chopped onion on top of this.

(Better Homes and Gardens New Cookbook, 1996 edition, p 461.)


>I think that Cincinnati chili tastes like it also has cummin and nutmeg
>thrown in with the cinnamon.
>
>Dieter
>
>
>
>At 02:00 PM 12/3/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>>Doesn't Cincinnati chili have chocolate or cocoa in it?
>>
>>
>>>The Cincinatti Chili I'm familiar with is basically a
>>>spaghetti sauce.
>>>
>>>JIM
>>>
>>>--- Mike Salovesh <salovesh at NIU.EDU> wrote:
>>>....
>>>   > On several trips to that fine city, I remembered a
>>>   > famous feature of
>>>   > Cincinnati cuisine: a dish called "Cincinnati
>>>   > chile".  (It comes in
>>>   > standard variants, which are ordered by the
>>>   > appropriate number from one
>>>   > to five.  As I recall, a "five" had a combination of
>>>   > five elements,
>>>   > including chile, cheese, and macaroni plus two more
>>>   > I foget.  Was one of
>>>   > them a hot dog?) I was proud of myself for
>>>   > remembering this bit of local
>>>   > esoterica on each return.
>>>   >
>>>   > I shouldn't have been that proud.  Each time, I
>>>   > ordered one of the
>>>   > concoctions (probably a number five).  Each time,
>>>   > the first bite
>>>   > reminded me how much I hate the dish.  I think its
>>>   > popularity comes from
>>>   > the fact that it's one dish a six year old can make
>>>   > successfully.
>>>   > That's not much of a recommendation.
>>>   >
>>>   > Several unhappy meetings with Cinti Chili finally
>>>   > taught me to accept
>>>   > anything else rather than order this mess again.
>>>
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>>
>>-
>>
>>Greg
>>greg at pulliam.org
>>
>>
>

-
Greg