COMPANY MEAT LOAF (Very Good! )

1-10 oz. tin whole mushrooms 1% tsp. salt

Cream dash pepper

1 egg, beaten 1 tbsp. minced onion
2 cups fine dry bread crumbs 2 lb. ground beef

2 tbsp. steak sauce 6 slices bacon

Set oven for 350 degrees. Drain mushrooms; mix the liquid
with enough cream to make 3% cup. Combine liquid mixture with egg
and next four ingredients and let stand five minutes. Mix in onion
and beef. Place bacon slices across width of a 91 by 5 by 3 loaf pan.
Lightly pack mixture into pan. Bake 142 hours. Drain fat from loaf;
brush a little fat over mushrooms. Invert loaf onto a baking sheet.
Raise oven temperature to 450 degrees. Place mushrooms on top of

and around loaf. Bake ten minutes longer. Serve 6 to 8.
Shirley Strokes

SAUCY MEAT LOAF
1 medium onion Y) tsp. basil
1¥2 pounds ground beef Y4 tsp. oregano
Y2 tsp. salt 1 can condensed tomato soup

Save 3 or 4 onion rings for topping. Place the rest in the bottom
of a baking pan 8 by 8 by 2; cover onions with ground beef, break up
lightly with a fork but do not pack down. Sprinkle with salt, basil
and oregano. Top with saved onions rings, pour tomato soup over all.

Bake at 375 degrees for 45 min. or until done as you like it.
Meat forms a tasty loaf with rich gravy around it.

Flo James

SELF-SAUCING MEAT LOAF

1 cup rolled oats 1% cup minced onion
1 cup milk ] tsp. salt

1¥%2 pounds ground beef 2 tsp. pepper

1 egg slightly beaten Y2 tsp. sage

Combine ingredients and mix. Pack in loaf pan. Groove out a
deep canal along top of mixture, but not as far as ends. Pour the
following sauce in canal, but do not let it spill over sides.

SAUCE:
3 tbsp. brown sugar Yq tsp. nutmeg
Y% cup catsup 1 tsp. dry mustard

Bake one hour at 350 degrees.

Nora Hodgson

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