Recipe - Helen Sauers Meatloaf

1 Egg
2 pound Ground beef and pork; (this
mixture is usually
available in the meat
section of most
supermarkets)
1 Onion; peeled and chopped
2/3 cup Rolled oats; (uncooked
oatmeal)
1 One half teaspoon Salt
1 pn Black pepper
1 cup Tomato juice; divided
1 (small) cans cut or sliced up
mushrooms in butter sauce;
drained (divided) * (up to
2)
1 cn Beef gravy

This was originally posted by Virginia Sauer.

* If preferred, substitute cut or sliced up fresh mushrooms which you have sauteed.

~ Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

~ Break egg into mixing bowl. Beat well.

~ Add beef mixture, chopped onion, uncooked oatmeal, salt, pepper, One half cup
of the tomato juice, and half of the cut or sliced up mushrooms (drained). Mix until
combined.

~ Shape dough into ball, then loaf.

~ Place loaf in baking pan.

~ Bake One half hour.

~ Evenly pour about One half cup additional tomato juice over meat loaf, and
sprinkle with remaining cut or sliced up mushrooms (drained).

~ Bake about 45 50 minutes longer.

~ Pour contents of can of beef gravy into baking dish. Stir well.

~ Bake 10 15 minutes longer.

NB: If preferred, cut or sliced up (and drained) pimientostuffed olives can be
substituted for one can of the mushrooms, and use the olives in the loaf,
and the mushrooms in the gravy. (This variation is especially appealing for
cold leftover slices.)

If preferred, a standard ketchup/tomato sauce glaze can be substituted for
the mushroom gravy ... Or, you could obviously make the gravy from scratch.

Posted to EATL Digest by Mary Hathaway paraducks1@JUNO.COM on Mar 9,
1998