Joanne's Ham Loaf - Original recipe
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INGREDIENTS
- 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
DIRECTIONS
- Mix together ham loaf ingredients.
- Form into loaf, cracker crumbs may be added if desired
- Mix together Laura Barden's secret sauce ingredients
- Pour 1 1/2 cups of Laura Barden's sauce over loaf and bake.
- Bake for 2 hours at 325 degrees
RECIPE BACKSTORY
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.