[From Good Housekeeping's Book of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries (1922) p. 169]

                 VICTORY MEAT LOAF

1 ½ chopped round steak     1 egg
¼ pound veal                      1 cupful soft bread-crumbs
¼ pound fat salt pork           1 tablespoonful minced parsley
1 medium-sized onion          1 ¼ teaspoonfuls salt
1 green pepper                   ¼ teaspoonful pepper
                 ¼ teaspoonful paprika

Put the steak, veal and salt pork through the meat grinder
together.  Add the onion and green pepper, finely chopped,
the egg well-beaten, the bread-crumbs, minced parsley, and
seasonings.  Mix all together thoroughly, then make into the
form of a loaf, place in a greased pan, and bake at 400° F.
for forty-five minutes.  serve hot with gravy made from the
juices in the pan or the loaf is equally delicious cold.

[Note: It's clear that this is a meat-stretching recipe from the recent "Great War" (World War I). Notice also that the word "hamburger" is not used, as German words were considered to have unpatriotic connotations during the war.]


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