FAIRMONT STYLE HOT DOG SAUCE

Fairmont Style Hot Dog Sauce image

Provided by @MakeItYours

Number Of Ingredients 13

1 C. finely chopped onion
5 pounds ground beef
1/4 pound ground pork
1 T. black pepper
1 T. salt
3 T. chili powder
4 T. crushed red chili pepper (medium hot)
1 32 oz. can tomato sauce
1 14 or 15 oz. bottle - ketchup
1 small can tomato paste
1 T. olive oil
1/4 t. cumin
1 dash Tabasco sauce

Steps:

In a large pot, saute the onion in the olive oil until tender but not browned. Crumble the raw hamburger and ground pork and add to the pot. Cover with water and cook for 1 hour, uncovered, adding more water if necessary. Add the remaining Ingredients and cook, covered, over low heat, just simmering, for two more hours.
If you wish a thinner sauce, add more water half way through the final two hours. For thick sauce, cook down, uncovered for a while longer.
This recipe makes quite a lot of hot dog sauce, so we freeze it in small lots and then microwave to thaw. This is not called Chili around here; it's Hot Dog Sauce and this style of sauce, or some variation of it is found in all of the dog stands in this town and in most of North Central West Virginia.