[From Good Housekeeping's Book
of Menus, Recipes, and Household Discoveries
(1922) p. 166-167]
TAMALE LOAF
1½ pounds beef chuck or bot-
1 large onion
tom round
1 teaspoonful chili powder
3 cupfuls stock
½ teaspoonful paprika
2 cupfuls strained, canned to-
3 teaspoonfuls salt
matoes
1 cupful unstoned ripe olives
1¼ cupfuls cornmeal
Cover the meat with hot water and
simmer until tender, re-
plenishing the water if necessary.
Put the meat through
a grinder, add the stock of which
there should be three cup-
fuls, the tomatoes, the onion chopped
fine, the chili powder,
paprika, and salt. Bring to
a boil and add the cornmeal
gradually, stirring constantly.
Cook for one hour. Then
add the ripe olives, stoned and
cut in small pieces, and pour
into greased pans. Mold, reheat
in a steamer, and serve hot
with a highly-seasoned tomato sauce.