My sister just asked me if I had the recipe for the Butterscotch pie (it's her birthday), but I looked through my mother's recipe notebooks and did not find one. I wonder if it was ever published anywhere?

I never ate there although we lived nearby at 1431 Tennyson Ave. We ate at Hasty Tasty and Char-Burger - wasn't there also a Parkmoor on Salem Avenue? My dad hated the "mayonnaise" (i.e. tartar sauce) at Frisch's so we never ate there as a family. But now, I buy that sauce and am never without it!

I made this once but didn't care much for it. Guess you had to be there!

Martha

From: ELMER STONE 1961 Sep 19 2003 5:06:36PM
To: CONSTANCE COLEMAN 1954
(3) How good were Goody Goody's hamburgers? (in reply to 2)

Goody Goody Hamburger sauce
1 stick butter
3 15 oz. cans whole peeled tomatoes(cut up the tomatoes)
1 tblsp. celery seed
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 tblsp. pepper
1 tblsp salt
2 small onions, chopped fine
Optional: add a little sugar and cut the salt in half.

Add all of the ingredients together in a sauce pan and cook on low heat for about 3-4 hours. If you double the recipe, cook for 5-6 hours.
Fry hamburgers (thin) and toast or broil buns with butter on them.
Top hamburgers with sauce, sliced hamburger, dills and mayo(optional).

Hope you enjoy this recipe and the memories that go with it.

Elmer Stone

SAUCE IS GOODY GOODY

* BYLINE: Dale Huffman Dayton Daily News
* DATE: January 19, 2003
* PUBLICATION: Dayton Daily News (OH)
* EDITION: CITY
* SECTION: LOCAL
* PAGE: B3
* COLUMN: Dale Huffman Column

Well, I have documented one thing about the folks who make Dayton and the Miami Valley their home. They don't forget good things.

To be more exact, they remember "goody goody" things. We printed a request not too long ago from Debbie Marcum of Huber Heights, who asked if we could find out the ingredients of a special hamburger sauce used for many years at the Goody Goody restaurant that used to be on Salem Avenue near Benton Avenue in Dayton View.

Within days, we had messages from a couple dozen readers with vivid memories of the restaurant and the famous sauce.

Best of all, we got in touch with Robert "Bob" Reid, 87, who lives in Kettering with his wife, Mary, and owned and operated the Goody Goody restaurant for many years.

"The restaurant was originally on West Third Street, in the 3500 block," Reid said. "Then sometime in the early 1940s, we moved to Salem Avenue. My parents actually started it in Florida, and when they moved to the Dayton area, opened the first restaurant here in the 1930s."

The Salem Avenue restaurant was fancy, he said, a Tudor-style building with a large dining room that seated about 140.

"We were in tune with the times, so there was drive-in service with carhops, as they were called then, serving patrons in the parking lot."

Reid said he retired and sold the restaurant in the early 1970s, and later the restaurant was closed.

The Goody Goody restaurant on Salem was popular as an after-school stop for many students from Fairview High School, Reid said. "Also on weekends, many stopped there after going to dances at the Lakeside ballroom."

He added, "Many of our customers came to call the restaurant 'Goody's' for short."

Jon Randolph, who lives in Columbia Station, said he dined there with his parents in the 1950s and later with high school and college friends in the 1960s.

Pat Manning of Englewood said the restaurant was her favorite place to go for lunch while in high school. "I loved the hamburgers served on a toasted bun, but also liked the dessert called 'easy way,' which was cake, ice cream and chocolate syrup. Oh, what memories I have of Goody's. I am so glad there are others who feel the same way."

Tom Killebrew of Dayton had these thoughts: "When you touch upon the Goody Goody, you are hitting what is practically a cult among Dayton old-timers. Many thought the restaurant was the best in Dayton View and perhaps Dayton."

Many readers sent in recipes for a hamburger sauce that they believe to be the Goody Goody secret sauce.

This is the recipe offered most often:

1 No. 15 can tomatoes, crushed.

1 medium-sized onion, diced.

1 tsp. celery seed.

1/2 tsp. salt.

Cook slowly and stir often.

Some readers, like Phyllis Chenoweth of Piqua, said you can add a dash of hot sauce.

Bob Reid said that recipe sounds accurate, as he remembers it. "I didn't do the cooking," he said. "But that sounds pretty good."

Reid was asked if he has found any hamburgers in the area that measure up, in his mind, to the old Goody Goody burger with the special sauce.

"Mary and I go out, and we are still looking," he said. "Most of the hamburgers are all the same. They just don't have that Goody Goody zing."

Dale Huffman wants your suggestions and story ideas. This column is for you. Do you have a sports fan in your family who is living for the Super Bowl? Are you planning a party? Send an e-mail to Huffman at dale_huffman@coxohio.com or write to him at 45 S. Ludlow St., Dayton, OH 45402. Fax: 225-2489. Phone: 225-2272.

My brother recently franchised the Pine Grove Family Restaurant in Tampa to serve the original Goody Goody Hamburger with the Secret Sauce. However, at this point, no decision has been made to franchise the Butterscotch Pie.

Obviously, this has been quite an enjoyable discussion for me, since we have very nostalgic feelings about Goody Goody.

Take care, Dick in Tampa.

Has anyone found a recipe for the delicious Goody Goody onion soup? (Or one that's similar?)

Goody's Onion Soup
1 Bermuda Onion, chopped finely
3 Tablespoons of Butter, divided
2 1/2 Tablespoons cornstarch
1 Cup whole milk
1 13 3/4 oz can chicken broth

Croutons and Grated Parmesan Cheese

I grew up about 1/2 mile north of Millers Grove Pool. I swam there almost every summer day when I was kid. I'm 43 now.

We use to sneak into the Drive In nest to the pool at night and watch the movies, and when I was in High School took dates there.

My cousin married Jeff Miller. Who is a good friend of mine. Last month we had a family reunion at Millers Grove. I live in NC and it has probally been 20 years since I was there last.

The pool is closed, it does not sound like it is likely to re-open. It would be very expsnsive. Jeff Miller has a BBQ stand at Miller Grove open on the weekends. Great BBQ

I still remember their jingle on the commercials:

"Parkmoor has what no one else has got!
Parkmoor has Dixie-fried chicken, that's what!
Dixie-fried to make it tender,
Dixie-fried to a golden brown!
Parkmoor has what no one else has got!
Parkmoor has Dixie-fried chicken, that's what!"

Now I want that chicken batter recipe, too!