Dairy Queen BBQHello Edith, Well, as you may know, Dairy Queen has BBQ sandwiches now, but they aren't the same as the ones they had in the 1960s. Places that specialize in bbq smoke their own meat, chop it, and use their own sauce on it. Places like Dairy Queen don't cook their own bbq, so they must use canned or frozen bbq for their sandwiches. Some big chains may have a central commissary where such a product is prepared, then frozen or canned, and sent out to the individual chain restaurants, where it is heated and used for the sandwiches. If a restaurant chain doesn't have a commissary, or if the restaurant is not a chain, then they buy canned or frozen bbq and use that. Years ago, like in the 1960s, there were no microwaves. It would take too much time to thaw and heat up frozen bbq, so many places that didn't specialize in bbq, but had bbq on their menu, used canned bbq for their sandwiches. I was a bbq sandwich fan as a teenager back in the 1960s. If a restaurant or drive-in that I went to had bbq sandwich on their menu, I'd usually choose that over a burger. I recall that, at least in the area in which I grew up, the bbq used in these sandwiches tasted very similar from place to place, including DQ. Lots of small lunch counters had bbq sandwiches on their menus and they had a similar flavor. I once asked the server at one of those lunch counters about their bbq, and she showed me a can labeled 'Castleberry's'. Later, I saw canned Castleberry's BBQ for sale in the grocery store. I bought some, heated it up and put it on a bun with dill pickle slices, and sure enough, that was the stuff. Now I'm not saying that DQ used Castleberry's bbq to make their sandwiches in the 1960s. There is not much way to find out where DQ got their bbq for sandwiches back in the 1960s. If they didn't have a commissary, they may have contracted with Castleberry's or another company to make a canned bbq to their specifications. Only someone who was a DQ employee in the 1960s could say for sure. What I am saying is get a can of Castleberry's and try it. Castleberry's has been in business since the 1920s, and they've probably been selling canned bbq for over half a century. If they haven't changed the recipe for their canned bbq in that half century, then it may have the flavor you are looking for. They sell it in pork or beef. You may be able to find it in your supermarket. Castleberry's website is here: Castleberry's Phaed Howard Johnson's Onion RingsHello David, Sorry, no success with this one. Phaed Hershey Kiss CookiesHi Pat, There are dozens of recipes for 'Hershey Kiss Cookies' here: Hershey Kiss Cookies Phaed |
Just hearing the word s'mores makes you think of summer, right? It does for us. And it also means it's S'more Blizzard time at Dairy Queen. My kids love them and ask to go there a lot. Unfortunately, I'm a tight wad and won't take them there very often. So what do we do? We try to recreate them, of course.
My Mom over at Wives with Knives posted a Copycat Dairy Queen Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe a couple of years ago so we started there. Seems reasonable, right?
Cooking: Heat large nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Add onion, cook 3 to 5 minutes until golden brown. Add Ground Beef and bell pepper; cook 8 to 10 minutes, breaking beef into 1/2-inch crumbles and stirring occasionally. In a large skillet over medium heat, heat oil. Add bell pepper and onion and cook until soft, 5 minutes; Stir in garlic and tomato paste and cook until fragrant, about 1 minute more.
We made the ice cream.
Then chopped up a bunch of s'mores goodness. (Yum!)
We carefully folded in the graham crackers, chocolate and marshmallow crème because we didn't want it to look pulverized. We wanted chunks of graham cracker in there and swirls of marshmallow crème.
Put it back into the freezer for a couple of hours to harden and there you go.
S'mores Ice Cream (AKA: Copycat Dairy Queen S'mores Blizzard)
Ingredients
- 2 envelopes Knox gelatin
- ½ cup cold water
- 4 cups whole milk
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract (I used ½ vanilla bean and 1 teaspoon vanilla extract)
- ½ teaspoon salt
- 3 cups whipping cream
- 1/2 cup marshmallow crème (plus or minus)
- 3 Hershey chocolate bars (plus or minus)
- 6 full sheets of graham crackers (plus or minus)
Instructions
- Soak gelatin in cold water
- Heat milk, but do not boil.
- Remove from heat and add gelatin, sugar, vanilla and salt.
- Cool and add cream.
- Chill 5 to 8 hours (or overnight)
- It will be pretty gelatinous (like pudding).
- Scoop half of the recipe into a 4 to 6 quart ice cream freezer can. Put the other half back into the refrigerator.
- Process according to manufacturer's directions.
- Meanwhile, chop the Hershey chocolate bars and graham crackers. You can make them as big or small as you would like. We like chunks of graham crackers in ours so we didn't crush them.
- Scoop into a container.
- Gently fold in the marshmallow crème, chopped Hershey bars and chopped graham crackers.
- Cover well, and freeze several hours or overnight.
The ice cream is delicious, even without all the yumminess we added. It's rich and creamy and smooth – just like Dairy Queen soft serve. My kids LOVED it!
Enjoy!
Are you looking for other delicious S'more recipes? How about our:
S'mores Cheesecake Campfire Cones
Peanut Butter S'more Granola Energy Bites
3 slotted drain pipe products.
S'more Roll Up Cookies
Dq Sloppy Joe Recipe Ketchup
Easy Sloppy Joes
S'mores Brownie Pie
We {Heart} S'mores
Is lots of proper grammar spelling. S'mores Stuffed Brownies
Dairy Queen Bbq Sandwich
Mini S'mores Hand Pies
(I guess we do like s'mores!)
