welcome friends it is Sunday morning so we're going to do another one of our pre
World War two post depression or Depression era recipes out of these
community cookbooks that we have and today we're going to use my favorite
recipe published by the stainer Sun in 1938 and we are going to make meatloaf I
have to admit I am a sucker for meatloaf so already in this bowl I have two
pounds of ground beef and one pound of ground pork and to that I'm going to add
two eggs has anyone noticed if you live in North America that grocery stores
just don't sell medium ground beef anymore or any sort of ground beef that
has fat in it the only thing you can get now pretty much is extra lean or lean
you have to ask the butcher and I use that term very vaguely you have to ask
the butcher to grind beef for you and even then they sort of look at you like
you've got two heads why would you want ground beef with any sort of fat in it
because fat is flavor and fat sort of helps the cooking process and if you
don't have fat everything is just dry and hard to eat so after the two eggs
I've got a cup of milk and I'm using whole milk homo milk three percent milk
it's called homo or three percent here in Canada after the milk six soda
biscuits rolled fine I'm gonna use a mortar and pestle and break up these
soda biscuits you could crack these up any way you want you know food processor
or a rolling pin in a plastic bag I think this is gonna do the trick for me
this is gonna be a lot of meatloaf mrs. D B must have had some very hungry
farmhands to feed in go the crushed soda crackers
and next in a teaspoon of poultry seasoning you can tell me that I may
have led a very sheltered life when it comes to eating meat loaf but I have
never had a Meat Loaf recipe that used poultry seasoning as the seasoning this
is a first for me I'm really looking forward to it because I love poultry
seasoning breakfast sausages amazing now salt and I'm gonna put the pepper in
next even though it calls for something in between the salt and the pepper
usually those two things go together on the recipe next in is half a cup of
tomato soup now I've had a debate about this it's 1/2 a cup of cream of tomato
soup I'm assuming maybe incorrectly that what she is referring to is Campbell's
condensed cream of tomato soup do I put it in straight from the can in its
condensed version or do i water it down with milk or water like you're supposed
to or do I just assume that the milk that I've already put in there is enough
liquid that looks like a lot of liquid I'm gonna go with I'm just going to pour
in the tomato soup and see what happens if I need to add extra liquid later I
will but I have a feeling I won't need it so can of Campbell's soup here is 284
milliliters cup is 250 milliliters so a little less than half a can of tomato
soup and onions cut fine in they go now we mix and the only kitchen tool for
mixing this is your hands so just get right in there you don't need gloves
just make sure you've washed them beforehand everything it'll be fine yeah
it'll be a little bit squishy and it might not look pretty but this is the
way you do it
so the instructions say to mix well and shape into a loaf now I'm assuming from
that that I'm not shaping it into a loaf pan I'm gonna shape it into a loaf on a
baking tray so big lump onto the baking tray and we'll shape it into a loaf
apparently my loaf shaping skills are pretty good so I'm just gonna wash my
hands and get rid of this bowl before the next step now we pour a quarter cup
of cream of tomato soup on top before putting it in the oven
looks good into the oven
so fresh out of the oven one very large meatloaf it is a big meatloaf steamy
steamy I touched the middle pant the wisest thing I've done today okay
looks moist does I'm mom so let's let's see it's hot that's fine only take a
tiny bit on currently I'm not gonna take a tiny piece interesting taste like
meatloaf it tastes like meat loaf yeah it's it's
got that onion flavor that savory kind of flavor
there's no okay so this is meatloaf for people that want to taste meat yes
there's no overpowering sauce or spice mix or no no it is it is very standard
meatloaf yeah yeah so can you put on a sandwich yes and so in the context of
when this recipe would have been made 1938 um I imagine this see what you're
saying there wasn't a tex-mex trend you know rural Ontario know what you're
trying to say and I'm so I'm thinking back and I see my grandfather pulling up
to the back door on the tractor coming inside my grandmother yelling at him to
wash his hands washes his hands in the laundry tub comes in and sits down for
dinner but dinner is noontime yes there's a new dude dinners at noon it's
lunch sack of bread to stack a bread slice of this slathered with mashed
potatoes filled with butter and cream you got the bread there was always I
don't know about on your table but there was always a bowl of molasses not at
dinner but yeah we would have molasses at supper so dare time there's always
molasses he dipped his bread in the molasses
corn syrup or corn syrup yeah it'd be dark dark corn syrup and you would eat
this and then depending on the season there would be either fresh beans from
the garden or canned beans from last season and he'd put it all on top piece
of bread slathered with look and all together and he'd eat it all together
and you wouldn't you wouldn't eat a scoop of this and then a scoop of
something else you would eat it all together and so the flavor of this was
more you wanted the beef flavor because it was gonna be mixed with everything
else yeah that's funny cuz my grandfather kind of ate the same way he
would just kind of put it all in one pile in the middle boom and you would
eat it everything was a casserole in the end so if if you're looking at this in
the lens of today a lot of people would say bland but looking at it how it would
have been eaten then but I should don't find a bland no we don't know but I can
I can hear the screaming of the commenters how blind it is because a lot
of people today expect a lot of other flavor a lot of other flavors put in all
at once I think this is a very serviceable meatloaf I think it's a
great place to start so many Labor's in it you could play it you could really
you could really ramp this up and make it and make it today which you know it's
just a basic meatloaf so thanks for stopping by so you can soon bring lots
of friends yes
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