Utah
4 dishes from Utah, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Utah Scones with Honey Butter
Slack yeast dough stretched thin and deep-fried until it balloons, torn open hot and spread with whipped honey butter — the Utah scone, which is not a scone, printed in Salt Lake newspapers as "fried scones" from 1929 and paired with honey butter in print from 1955.
- Total
- 1 hr 35 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 385 per serving
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Fry Sauce
Two parts mayonnaise to one of ketchup, loosened with pickle brine and lifted with paprika — Utah's drive-in condiment, dated here to a 1964 Salt Lake advertisement and an Arctic Circle one of January 1967, with the man usually credited already selling "his special sauce" in 1956.
- Total
- 25 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 150 per serving
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Pastrami Burger
A quarter-pound patty under a mound of griddled pastrami and melted cheese, with lettuce, tomato and fry sauce — the Salt Lake Valley drive-in burger, dated here from a 1979 help-wanted column, a 1980 Ogden menu and a 1982 coupon rather than from anybody's anniversary story.
- Total
- 30 min
- Serves
- 4
- Calories
- 660 per serving
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Funeral Potatoes
Shredded potatoes bound with sour cream, condensed soup and sharp cheddar, baked under buttered corn flakes — the dish Utah takes to a funeral luncheon, built out of three federally defined industrial products and a name that does not appear in the state's newspapers until 1994.
- Total
- 1 hr 15 min
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 430 per serving