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CROCKPOT: Family Favorite Meatloaf

Source of Recipe

Crockery Cookery by Mabel Hoffman


Recipe Introduction

This is a good basic meatloaf recipe. If you like a kind of sweet-hot/spicy sauce, this is a good one. Otherwise ketchup or bottled BBQ sauce works.

List of Ingredients

---Meatloaf---
2 large eggs, beaten
3/4 cup skim milk
2/3 cup fine dry breadcrumbs
2 tablespoons grated onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground sage
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef

---SAUCE--- *see Note
1/4 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons brown sugar
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg


Recipe

MEATLOAF: Combine eggs with milk, bread crumbs, onion, salt, sage, and meat. Mix well & shape loaf into a 9 X 5 inch rectangle or oval, or about 6" around. (To fit the bottom of your crock pot.) Carefully place in slow cooking pot. Cook on low for 5 to 6 hours.

SAUCE: Combine sauce ingredients in a small bowl; pour over meatloaf. Cover and cook on high 15 minutes longer. Slice and serve while hot or use cold slices for sandwiches. ("Sam'mitches") Makes 6 servings.


SAUCE NOTE: I usually double or triple the amount; we like the sauce!

Original Author's Notes: The recipe doesn't mention it, but I dislike the bottom of my meatloaf becoming 'soggy' from sitting in the cast-off grease. So I invert a disposable pie pan saved from a "convenience foods" purchase and put my meatloaf on top of it. The grease drains away from the meatloaf. I've done this for years without any drawbacks.