Ingredients

• 4 natural casing beef frankfurters (I like Boar's Head brand)
• 4 hot dog buns (with poppyseeds if you can find them)
• 1 small onion, diced fine
• 3 -4 teaspoons sweet pickle relish (bright green type if you can find it!)
• 1 cold-pack kosher dill pickle, quartered lengthwise
• 1 small tomatoes, sliced into julienne strips
• dusseldorf-style brown mustard, with horseradish,to taste (may use yellow mustard)
• celery seed
• poppy seed (omit if using seeded buns)
• beer, for simmering (standard golden lager preferred; not authentic)
• 4 -8 pickled sport bell peppers or 4 -8 tiny hot peppers (Kroger sells these)