Here is yet another recipe for small cheeseburger sandwiches. They make perfect luncheon fare or use as fancy appetizers. These are named to honor a gay French survior of the Holocaust. The recipe can also be used as meatballs, full sized burgers, or even as a meatloaf.
Hamburger with sausage and bacon mixed in will make your mouth water even before you melt on the cheese!
Ingredients
1 lbs ground beef
½ lbs loose pork sausage
3 slices bacon cooked and chopped very small
½ cup panko or plain breadcrumbs
1 egg lightly beaten
1½ tsp salt + ½ tsp pepper
½ a yellow onion grated
4 - 6 ounces thinly sliced cheese cut into 1" square pieces (try Gruyère as a break from the sandard American).
Directions
Fry up the bacon until almost, but not crisp. You will know it is ready when it releases its greese. Remove and crumble.
Combine the beef, pork, and bacon in a large mixing bowl.
Grate the onion in. Do not overmix or they will be tough.
Add the breadcrumbs, egg, salt, and pepper.
Let that sit while you preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
Line a rimed baking sheet with parchment paper.
When the oven is ready, scoop out meat as 1 inch balls and place on the baking sheet. Leave room between as you are going to squash each nearly flat! (if making meatballs, roll each with damp hands to form.)
Bake for 18 minutes.
Remove from the oven and change oven to broil. Lay a square of cheese on top of each piece and broil just until the cheese has melted.
Place the patties on sliced Hawaiian rolls and enjoy with your favorite condiments!
You can also use this as a meatloaf recipe or just as full sized burgers.
If you are making this as meatballs, try using short pretzels instead of toothpicks to serve!
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Pierre Seel
Pierre Seel (1923 – 2005) was a gay Holocaust survivor and the only French person to have testified openly about his experience of deportation during World War II due to his homosexuality. Even then it was nearly 50 years before he could publish his memoir, I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual, in 1994.
Pierre was the fifth son of an affluent Catholic family, born at the family castle of Fillate in France. His father ran a successful pastry – confectionary on the town's main street. His mother, Emma Jeanne, once director of a department store, joined the family business when she married.
By his late teens, Pierre Seel was part of the local gay subculture. But He found it difficult to come to terms with and accept his sexuality.
In 1939, when he was in a public garden notorious as a "cruising" spot, his watch was stolen, a gift from his godmother. He did not realize that when he reported the theft to the police, his name was added to a list of homosexuals held by the police. Now homosexuality had not been illegal in France since 1791. However, the Vichy Regime persecuted gays anyway. The German invasion had curtailed many of Seel's dreams.
On 3 May 1941, Seel was arrested. He was tortured and forcibly sodomized with a piece of wood. He was then sent to the city jail before being transferred ten days letter to the Schirmeck-Vorbrück camp, near Strasbourg. His prison uniform was marked with a blue bar ("a-social" prisoners) rather than the infamous pink triangle which was not in use at Schirmeck. He later noted: "There was no solidarity for the homosexual prisoners; they belonged to the lowest caste. Other prisoners, even between themselves, used to target them." During his stay in the camp, he was forced to watch as his eighteen-year-old lover, Jo, was killed by a pack of dogs.
Then in November, after months of starvation, ill-treatment, and forced labor, Seel was set free with no explanation and made a German citizen. He was sworn to secrecy about his experience and made to report daily to the Gestapo offices.
Seel had to join the Wehrmacht (German army). In 1942, he become one of the "malgré-nous" (despite ourselves), young men born in Alsace enrolled against their will into the German army who had to fight with their enemies against the people they supported.
In spring 1943, to his bemusement, Seel was sent to Pomerania, one of a dozen places in the Reich that Heinrich Himmler set up to breed a new race according to the Nazis' standards of Aryan "purity". Young, healthy couples who looked the correct way were to procreate and give their children to the Reich. He only stayed there a few days.
Seel was still in Poland when the Armistice was declared. At this time he was advised to change his name to Celle and say he was from Belfort before being returned to France.
"Pierre Celle" finally arrived back in Paris on 7 August 1945. Seel realized that he would have to lie about his true story and lie about the reasons for his deportation. "I was already starting to censor my memories, and I became aware that, in spite of my expectations, in spite of all I had imagined, of the long-awaited joy of returning, the true Liberation was for other people."
The homophobic atmosphere of the 1940s–1960s meant that telling his story would only bring further discrimination. In his book, Seel notes an increase of homophobic attacks, after the war. His family disapproved of his sexuality. His closest relatives decided to avoid bringing up the subject while other members of the extended family made humiliating jokes. His godfather disinherited him.
This was the beginning of what he called the years of shame. Seel led a life of "painful sadness", during which he slowly came to decide that he must renounce being gay. In 1950, he civilly married the daughter of a Spanish dissident and told her nothing about his sexuality. They eventually had two sons and a daughter. Seel found it difficult to relate to his children. He did not know how to express his love for his two boys without it being misinterpreted.
Over the next twenty years, the couple grew further apart. He was tormented by feelings of inadequacy, shame, and confusion about his sexuality. By the time he and his wife separated in 1978, he was taking tranquilizers. He started to drink. After one of his sons threatened to never see him again if he did not stop, he joined a counseling group.
In 1979 Seel's life changed. He was still trying for reconciliation with his wife. One night he happened to attend a discussion in a local bookshop about the French edition of Heinz Heger's The Men with the Pink Triangle, a memoir of the concentration camp experiences of Josef Kohout. Heger's book inspired Seel's coming out as a gay man and as a victim of the Nazis. He joined his local branch of David et Jonathan, a gay and lesbian Christian association. He had come to terms with who he was.
In 1981, his testimony collected by Jean-Pierre Joecker was published anonymously in a special edition of the French translation of the play Bent by Martin Sherman. In April 1982, in response to anti-gay actions and speeches by the Bishop of Strasbourg, Seel spoke publicly and wrote an open letter to the Bishop. At the same time, he started the official process of getting compensation from the state.
Seel came to be known as the most outspoken activist among the men who had survived internment for being gay during the Third Reich. He was an active supporter of the Mémorial de la Déportation Homosexuelle, a French national association to honor the memory of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime. He advocated formal recognition of these victims in the ceremonies held annually.
Seel found himself repeatedly under attack in the 1980s and 1990s, even receiving death threats. After he appeared on French television, he was attacked and beaten by young men in a hate crime. Catherine Trautmann, then the Mayor of Strasbourg once refused to shake his hand during a commemorative ceremony.
In 1994, Seel published the book Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel (I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual), written with the assistance of journalist and activist Jean Le Bitoux. The book was published in translations of English, German, Spanish and Danish. Seel appeared on national television and in the national press in France. In 1996, shortly before his autobiography appeared in German translation, Seel felt it important to visit the Austrian concentration campsite at Mauthausen with its memorial to homosexuals persecuted by the Nazi regime. It was the first of its kind worldwide when it was dedicated in 1984. Latter Seel spoke at the dedication of a memorial to gays of the Holocaust at Berlin's Nollendorfplatz.
Seel's story was featured in Paragraph 175, a documentary film. Seel received a five-minute standing ovation at the documentary's premiere at the Berlin film festival in February 2000.
In 2005, A Love to Hide (French title: Un amour à taire), a French made-for-television film, was released. It is loosely based on Seel's memoir Moi, Pierre Seel, déporté homosexuel and is dedicated to him.
Seel spent the last 12 years of his life with his long-term partner, Eric Féliu. They quietly bred dogs in Toulouse. Then in November 2005, Seel died of cancer.
On 23 February 2008, the municipality of Toulouse renamed a street in the city in honor of Seel. The name plaque reads "Rue Pierre Seel - Déporté français pour homosexualité – 1923-2005".
This year, Paris, France named a street Pierre Seel Street.
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