Title: Prairie Dog Bat Masterson
Categories: Meat Check
Yield: 1 Recipe

Bat Masterson was one of the early law officers of Dodge City, Kansas and a great friend of Wyatt Earp. Bat was an excellent gunfighter. He was a short, stubby man with a friendly homespun appearance that made him look like anything but a gunfighter. In later years he became a New York sports writer. He was not a heavy drinker. He preferred lemon pop to alcoholic drinks and drank large quantities of it. His favorite foods were cold tongue sandwiches and wiener sandwiches. Bat created a wiener sandwich which became well known throughout the Old West and was justly though of as a real delicacy. Everyone called it a Prairie Dog. It is one of the greatest wiener recipes ever made and will be remembered long after Bat's gun deeds are forgotten. Here is the original recipe:

Take a wiener and slit it open lengthwise. Take ground sage and rub plenty of it into the slit and onto the sides of the slit. Place the wiener in an oven and broil until done. Take a bun and on one side of it put mustard and thinly sliced dill pickles. On the other side sprinkle it well with Worcestershire sauce. The sage, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce blend trogether to give you a sanwhich with a wonderful taste. Be sure to try this famous sandwhich at your first opportunity. It makes the usual catsup and mustard wiener sandwich taste very poor in comparison.

Source: "BULL COOK AND AUTHENTIC HISTORICAL RECIPES AND PRACTICES", by George Leonard Herter and Berthe E. Herter, copyright 1969

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