Best 4 Very Very Old Recipes

VERY OLD MEATLOAF RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Mix ground beef with water and milk in a large bowl using your hands until beef is evenly moistened.
• Mix bread crumbs, onion, carrot, apple, and egg into the beef mixture until evenly integrated.
• Form the beef mixture into a loaf.
• Transfer the meatloaf to a deep baking dish; tent with a sheet of aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour; remove foil tent and bake until no longer pink the center, about 30 minutes more.

VERY OLD FASHIONED GIBLET DRESSING (FOR TURKEY)

Steps:

• 1. CROUTONS: I make these the day before so that I am not sweating my time in the kitchen.
• 2. Cut bread slices into bite size pieces. Place in 2 9x13 cake pans ( you will need to toss these several times so its easier to not overcrowd them).
• 3. Melt butter and all the rest of the Crouton ingredients in a sauce pan. I get it warm then turn off the heat while I finish cutting bread.
• 4. Pour the melted butter mix over the bread in each pan. Toss throughly so that the butter mix is distributed over the whole pan of bread. If the bread is still dry you can drizzle a little olive oil over it to extend the butter.
• 5. Bake at 300 for about 1 hour, tossing the croutons every 20 min for even drying and browning. These should come out very toasty and tasty!
• 6. GIBLETS AND JUICE: I start this as soon as the turkey goes into the oven.
• 7. Put the CROUTONS into a large lasagna pan (mine is 11x15)
• 8. Dump everything in a saucepan, make sure that the neck and giblets are covered in liquid. Boil for 20 min. Turn off heat and let set until cool to the touch.
• 9. Reserve the liquid. Remove neck and giblets. Take all the meat off the neck and put into the CROUTONS.
• 10. I used to mince all the giblets but now I take the easy way out. Throw the heart, stomach and liver into a food processor and whir till small chunks or pasty (your taste). Dump this into the CROUTONS.
• 11. Dump chopped vegetables into the CROUTONS. Toss, stir, mix up ... you know what I mean. Add the reserved giblet/neck broth to this until it is moist. If you have used all the broth and the croutons are not moist enough you can either add olive oil chicken/turkey broth or melt a stick of butter and use that.
• 12. Bake for an hour at 325 (with the turkey) or 30-40 min at 400, you want the vegetables to be tender and the croutons to be semi-dry.

HASTY PUDDING -A VERY OLD CORNMEAL RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Put the cornmeal in a bowl and add 1cup of cold water.. In a heavy saucepan bring 3 cups of water, and 1/2 teaspoon of salt to a boil. Carefully stir in the cornmeal mixture, making sure it does not lump. Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally,for 12 to 15 minutes. Serve pudding with a pat of butter ( Oh! go ahead LOTS,of butter) and the sweetener of your choice, or cream.
• 2. Picture is my lunch 10/31/11 lots of butter, maple syrup in the middle.. I eat around the outer edge first, while dipping the spoon with pudding into the syrup. My, my, that,s GOOOOD!

CORA'S DATE PUDDING - A VERY OLD RECIPE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In a small saucepan mix sugar, water, and butter. Cook until it comes to a boil. Pour into a 9 by 13 inch pan. Mix all remaining ingredients together, forming a dough-like mixture. Drop by tablespoons full onto mixture in 9 by 13 pan. Bake for 20 minutes. Serve with ice cream or whipped cream.