Fatherland Farm Meat Loaf

Ingredients

• Butter a long narrow cake tin and line it with cold mashed potatoes
• Inside this put a filling of roast beef, chopped rather coarsely
• seasoned with pepper, salt and a few drops of onion juice
• moistened with gravy
• cover with mashed potato

Method

1. 1

   Butter a long narrow cake tin and line it with cold mashed potatoes, smoothing it with a spatula into a layer about an inch thick.

2. 2

   Inside this put a filling of roast beef, chopped rather coarsely, seasoned with pepper, salt and a few drops of onion juice, and moistened with gravy.

3. 3

   Smooth this filling till within one inch of the top of the tin, and cover with mashed potato.

4. 4

   Bake in a hot oven for half an hour and turn out on a long platter.

5. 5

   It will look like a finely crusted loaf, and may be cut in neat slices.

6. 6

   This makes a delicious luncheon or tea dish.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Left-overs made palatable (1902) by Isabel Gordon Curtis, page 35. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

FATHERLAND FARM MEAT LOAF Butter a long narrow cake tin and line it with cold mashed potatoes, smoothing it with a spatula into a layer about an inch thick. Inside this put a filling of roast beef, chopped rather coarsely, seasoned with pepper, salt and a few drops of onion juice, and mois- tened with gravy. Smooth this filling till within one inch of the top of the tin, and cover with mashed potato

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