Confederate house meatloaf
8 Servings
Quantity | Ingredient | |
---|---|---|
1½ | pounds | Lean ground beef |
½ | pounds | Jjimmy Dean sage sausage |
1 | \N | Green pepper; chopped |
1 | \N | Onion; chopped |
½ | \N | Envelope onion soup mix |
3 | slices | Old bread; cubed and soaked in 1/2 cup milk |
2 | \N | Eggs; beaten |
¼ | teaspoon | Salt |
½ | teaspoon | Pepper |
4 | tablespoons | Chili sauce |
½ | can | Green chilies; chopped |
\N | \N | Seasonings; to taste |
Mix enough catsup, mustard and brown sugar to make ½ cup topping.
Combine all ingredients and place in shallow baking pan shaping into a loaf shape. Top with mixture of catsup, brown sugar and Dijon mustard. Bake1- ¼ hours at 350 degrees.
Lou's Notes: I used regular sausage as I don't like sage. I didn't have any "old" bread, so I toasted the bread a bit to dry it out. I seasoned with Tony Chachere's but many others would work. Sometimes I leave out the green chiles and sometimes substitute green salad olives (with pimentos). Also sometimes use red or yellow bell peppers instead of green.
I don't know the proportions I use for the topping - just go by taste.
The first time I made this meatloaf, it was delicious, but didn't hold together well. The next time I made it, I squeezed the milk out of the bread before adding it to the mixture. Also I made the loaf as "solid" as I could. I cook my meatloaf in a meatload pan. Although the grease collected in the bottom of the pan, there was still, in the top part, sort of a "run off" of meatloaf from the main loaf. I discarded (i.e., gave the dogs) that part. It was edible, but rather runny and not very pretty. This recipe made two loaves. They freeze very well.
When I buy the sausage, I cut the 1 pound package into two parts and freeze them until needed.
Recipe by: Confederate House
Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter by Lou Parris <lbparris@...> on Sep 08, 1997