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Sunday Dinner….Brown Sugar Meatloaf…
I haven’t done a meat loaf in awhile and I’m craving one on this cold winters day. I learned a few yummy recipes from my mother that I can remember her teaching me….I was a newlywed when I got this one…. |
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| Yummy brown sugar meatloaf.... |
She didn’t like us kids in the kitchen when she cooked. (Now of course I know why!) But I did learn how to make her meat loaf. It was delicious. I always loved meat loaf night.
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| The ketchup I use is always Heinz. It’s the best! |
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The sugar/ketchup mixture….I had about a third of it to the mix before baking it….
.the rest is for topping it after it’s baked awhile … |
Sometimes she would add leftover cooked rice to the meat loaf recipe and roll the mix into meatballs and then call them porcupines. I loved those too. You could do that too. I added brown sugar to this recipe to ramp up the flavor even more. It makes it just that much better.
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| Vidalia Sweet Onions are the best in recipes… |
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| I saute the onion a bit before adding it to the meatloaf….I don’t love crunchy onions in my meatloaf! |
I always try to add sweet Vidalia onions or a sweet white onion when I can find them in the market. They are usually at Costco too. But sometimes I don’t want a 20 pound bag of onions, you know?
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| I use Johnny’s and Lemon Pepper for seasoning my meatloaf…. |
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| Mix up meat, crackers, onions and about 1/3 of the sauce and 2 eggs, and spices…. |
The basic recipe is just ground beef,round or saltine crackers, eggs, ketchup, onions, brown sugar, season salt and pepper. I toss in a little lemon pepper too.
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| Meatloaf before sauce….Just pour sauce on top after it’s baked for 30 minutes…then bake another 30 minutes… |
I have also made this recipe into 2 mini loaves and put one in the freezer (topped with ketchup mixture) for another meal since there are only 2 of us now. That makes a nice treat when you come home from work tired and hungry. You have one to just pop in the oven! Serendipity!
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| Here’s the one I covered with foil and put into the freezer for sometime next month…. |
RECIPE FOR MOM’S MEATLOAF (BROWN SUGAR ADDED)
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| I added a sweet potato and a side salad and raspberry jello with raspberries and blueberries for dinner….. |
INGREDIENTS FOR BROWN SUGAR MEATLOAF
1/3 cup dark brown sugar
3/4 cup ketchup Mix these 2 ingredients and set aside
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1 1/2 lbs ground beef
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 Vidalia onion diced
3/4 teaspoon Lawry’s Season Salt
A few shakes of lemon pepper
3/4 cup saltines finely crushed or Ritz crackers
1/3 to 1/2 of the sugar/ketchup sauce mixed into meat mixture
DIRECTIONS:
Mix brown sugar and ketchup and set aside. Then mix the rest of the ingredients in a separate mixing bowl. Add 1/2 the ketchup mixture to the meat mixture and stir together. Then form the meat mixture into a roll into a bread pan or a shallow 9 x 9 casserole dish.
Bake in the oven for 55 to 60 minutes at 350. After 30 minutes take out the meatloaf and pour off some of the fat. Then I add the brown sugar/ ketchup on the top and smooth out with a spatula.
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| Mom’s Yummy Meatloaf….with a little sweet improvement! |
Bake the remaining 25 to 30 minutes. Let meatloaf set out for 10 minutes to rest a bit before slicing for serving as it will stay together better. Enjoy!
