Tamale Loaf

Ingredients

• 1 lb. veal stew
• 1 lb. fresh fat pork
• 1 qt. boiling' water or stock
• 5 dried Chiles with seeds and veins removed
• 1 level tablespoon Grandma's pepper
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 1 or 2 cups fine corn meal
• 1 cup tomatoes
• 2 tablespoons corn meal
• 2 dozen olives
• 2 dozen raisins

Method

1. 1

   Put veal stew and fresh fat pork to cook in boiling water or stock with dried chiles and garlic.

2. 2

   When meat is partly cooked, add salt.

3. 3

   Simmer until bones can be separated, then drain off juice.

4. 4

   Sift corn meal into the liquid while stirring until thick.

5. 5

   Remove garlic and peppers, separate meat, and return liquid.

6. 6

   Add tomatoes, corn meal, more salt, and boil until moist.

7. 7

   Line a bread pan with corn meal paste, pour in meat, cover with corn meal, and bake in a pan of water for 30 to 45 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from San Rafael cook book, 1906 (1906) by Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

TAMALE LOAF— Mrsi. W. F. Jones, Put 1 lb. veal stew, 1 lb. fresh fat pork to cook in 1 qt. boiling' water or stock, 5 dried Chiles with seeds and veins removed, or 1 level tablespoon Grandma's pepper, or half of each, and 2 <!loves of garlic. When meat •58 MEATS :is partly cooked add 2 teasipoons salt; simmer gently until bones and meat can be easily separated, then draicj off % qt. of the juice, being sure to get most of the fat. Sift gently into this liquid, while stirring Tiriskly l^^ or 2 cups fine corn raeal and cook until it itJoes not taste Taw. It must be thick enough to leaiVia the pan as yon stir. Remove ;garlic and peppers, separate bones, gristle and skin from the meat, pull into pieces and return the balance of liquid which should be about 1 ■cup. Add to this 1 cup tomatoes, about 2 tablespoons corn meal, more :salt to taste, boil until just moist; add 2 dozen olives and; 2 dozen rais- in

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