Recipe - Holly Hobbie’s Meat Loaf

December 8th, 2007

This came from my sister’s Holly Hobbie Cookbook. I remember making it as a kid. it is probably like any other meatloaf recipe out there, but it is somewhat nostalgic for us.

Start 2 hours before serving time.
Serves: 5

  • 1/4 cup chopped onions
  • 1/2 cup grated carrots
  • 1 egg
  • 1 1/2 pounds ground beef
  • 1/2 cup fresh bread crumbs
  • 1/2 cup milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon pepper
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degree. Chop onion into small pieces. Measure out 1/4 cup. Set aside.
  2. Grate carrots. Measure out 1/2 cup. Set aside.
  3. Break egg into small cup. Set aside
  4. Measure out remaining ingredients. Place in mixing bowl. Add egg. Mix well.
  5. Spoon mixture into loaf pan. Smooth out top with back of spoon. Bake approx. 1 hour.
  6. Remove pan from oven. Cool 10 min. on cooling rack. Pour off and discard drippings.
  7. Use spatula to loosen sides of loaf from pan. Turn loaf out of pan onto WARM platter. Server warm.

I’m gonna have to make a loaf this week. I’ll have to resist the urge to use 1/2 beef, 1/4 pork, 1/4 veal this time. Make it like old times. (Although using an assortment of meats really gives a better texture.)

Posted by Joe Filed in Cooking

2 Responses to “Recipe - Holly Hobbie’s Meat Loaf”

  1. Joe Says:
    December 15th, 2007 at 4:58 pm

    Finally made this and it was what I remembered as a kid. Pretty good meat loaf. As I never follow recipes exactly, I changed a few things to what I had on hand.

    Used 1.5 lbs of 90/10 ground sirloin. Pretty good hamburger.

    I used very little onion, as Amy can’t eat onion without having problems. To compensate, I used a clove of garlic, pressed.

    Probably used 3/4 cup of carrots, didn’t measure but it was more than a 1/2 cup.

    Instead of 1/2 cup bread crumbs, I used around 1/2 cup of Sage and Onion dressing cubes. I ground them up a bit using my mortise and pestle.

    I used 1/2 cup of Goat’s milk, because that was the closest to expiring milk I had on hand.

    Turned out very well. Amy doesn’t like meat loaf, but thought this was pretty good.

  2. Mom Says:
    March 8th, 2008 at 5:13 pm

    When Ruth wanted to cook for the family, she made this meatloaf. She pressed it in a mold that we used to make jello in and then baked it. She served it with green peas in the middle of it - it was pretty.

    It always tasted the same each and every time!

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