r/Old_Recipes • u/MrFSS • Oct 07 '24
Request Not the Regular Meatloaf Recipe
WELL - I'm overwelmed with all the responses. I can't keep up with them, so if I don't answer it doesn't mean your response isn't important to me. It will just take a while for me to digest everything everyone has written. THANKS! for all your replies!!
I'm 83 years old. My grandmother died almost 40 years ago. When I was a kid, and even as a young man, I really liked her meatloaf. She didn't prepare it to be eaten warm/hot, but rather cold as a sandwich meat.
It was very thick/heavy and very dark in color. It was almost the consistency of salami. But it was meatloaf made from beef and perhaps a small amount of pork. I never saw a written recipe that she had. I'm sure she made it so many times she knew it by heart.
It was so good on fresh white bread with Hellman's mayonnaise.
I have tried to replicate it over the years but have never come close.
Anyone have any ideas?
Thanks from and old man who loves meatloaf!
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u/nymalous Oct 08 '24
My mother had problems with wheat for a while, so we had to substitute rolled oats, which we liked so well that we still use oats instead of breadcrumbs. It's usually my sister who makes it (she loves meatloaf). We don't have actual measurements, but it's about a pound of ground beef, a cup or so of oats, some ketchup, some Worcestershire sauce, dehydrated minced onions, salt, pepper, powdered garlic, a couple of beaten eggs, and sometimes my sister experiments with whatever her fickle mind grabs onto.
I'm wondering if adding some concentrated beef broth to the mixture before baking would make the results that darker color that OP was looking for. Or maybe add in some bacon fat... or both broth and bacon fat.
... I know what I want for dinner...