Tonight I finally made the meatloaf I've almost made a couple weeks ago. The original recipe for this meatloaf came Betty Crocker's New Cookbook. Over the last couple of years, I've adjusted the ingredient quantities a bit. My altered recipe and some notes are posted below.
MEATLOAF
Prep: 20 minutes
Bake: 45 minutes to 1 hour
Ingredients:
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1 cup milk
1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon dried sage leaves
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon dry mustard (ground)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1 large egg
1/2 cup dry bread crumbs or 3/4 cup quick cook oats
1 tablespoon onion flakes
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Mix together all ingredients. Form into 6 loaves and arrange in an ungreased 9 x 13 baking dish. Spread ketchup or BBQ sauce over each loaf.
3. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour and serve. (Cook until thermometer reads 160 degrees.)
Notes:
1. The original recipe called for chopped onion--I opt for onion flakes because we don't like the texture of crunchy onions in our food.
2. The original recipe called for torn pieces of bread. I find that to be a tedious and unnecessary ingredient. It is much easier to use dry bread crumbs or quick cook oats, which Betty listed as alternative ingredients. I used dry bread crumbs and ground beef with an unknown fat content for the first time tonight. The beef came pre-wrapped from the butcher shop and didn't have the fat content noted on the package. The beef ended up being fattier than I usually use and probably would have gone better with the oats than the bread crumbs.
3. I spread regular ketchup over half of the loaves for me and spicy cajun catsup over the other half for Ben.
4. Ben had to work late tonight, so Katie and I ate before he got home. She hasn't been very into eating meat lately; so, I was completely shocked when she ate almost an entire meatloaf on her own. Yes, she did consume a lot of ketchup with it, but still! Go Meat! I mean, Go Katie!
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