• Cooking Time: 2 hours
• Servings: 10 servings
• Preparation Time: 20 minutes
• Ham Loaf:
• 1 lb raw ham
• 1 lb lean pork, ground
• 1 lb veal
• 1 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups cracker crumbs if desired
• Salt
• Pepper
• Laura Barden's Secret Sauce:
• 1 1/2 cups brown sugar
• 1 Tbsp mustard
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup vinegar

1. Mix together ham loaf ingredients.
2. Form into loaf, cracker crumbs may be added if desired
3. Mix together Laura Barden's secret sauce ingredients
4. Pour 1 1/2 cups of Laura Barden's sauce over loaf and bake.
5. Bake for 2 hours at 325 degrees

This recipe was made in 1935 at a girls camp near Hazelhurst, Wisconsin. Popular in its day, hamloaf was a a baked meat dish, similar to meatloaf, made of ground ham and ground pork and combined with other ingredients to form a loaf like shape.Distinct in color and taste from meatloaf, hamloaf is often baked with a sweet glaze, often consisting of brown sugar, molasses, pineapples, or cherries. Some cooks made it with Spam.