Pizza meatloaf and better than average brownies from 1970 recipes

Time to bring out some of those Meat Loaf songs like Bat out of Hell or Paradise by the Dashboard Light, released in October 1977. Does Meat Loaf even like meatloaf?

aprilcooking 025Not sure if this stared out as a pizza dish or a meatloaf dish.

Pizza Meat Loaf, Adele Hopper, 1972, PEO Recipe

The variety of meatloaf recipes in my boxes was impressive. Just to mention a few: Louisiana Meat- loaf is made with molasses, Pennsylvania Meat Loaf features tomato juice and V-8 juice and Ham Loaf is made from 2 pounds of what else? Ground ham. Pizza as a meatloaf dish? Had to try it.

aprilcooking 023 Ingredients:

    • 2 lbs. ground chuck
    • ½ cup each milk and crushed saltine crackers (bread crumbs work)
    • 2 eggs, slightly beaten
    • ½ cup finely chopped onion or onion flakes
    • ½ teaspoon each: salt, garlic salt, whole oregano and basil
    • 1-101/2 oz. can pizza sauce
    • 1 cup or more mozzarella cheese
    • ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese
Meatloaf toppings!
Meatloaf toppings!

In a bowl combine the meat, milk, crackers, eggs, onion, salt, garlic salt, oregano and basil. Mix well. Then lightly pat into a 9×13 baking pan. Bake in a 400 degree oven for 20 minutes. Remove from oven, drain off excess drippings and spread pizza sauce on top.

Distribute any extra toppings you choose over meat (sliced olive, green pepper, strips or sliced mushrooms) or use only cheese. Now sprinkle mozzarella and Parmesan onto meat. Put back into over for about 10 minutes until cheese bubbles. Serve at once, cut in squares. Serves 6-8.

If a cracked dish is boiled for 45 minutes in sweet milk, the crack will be so welded together that it will hardly be visible, and will be so strong it will stand the same usage as before. A clean clothes pin provides a cool handle to steady the cake tin when removing a hot cake. Sons of Italy in America, Hanford 1967

aprilcooking 008Brownies, Arlene Bentz, June 1971

  • 2 cups flour
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 teaspoon soda
  • 1 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Sift above and add to following:
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/3 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • Mix well.
  • Bring the following to a boil and mix with above:
  • 2 Tablespoons coca
  • 2 cubes margarine (or butter)
  • 1 cup water

Grease pan but do not flour. Bake 400 degrees, 10-15 minutes. Makes 2 large pans, 9×13. (For thicker brownie, pour batter into 9×13 and bake an extra 10 minutes.)

aprilcooking 003Frosting:

  • 1 Cube margarine (or butter)
  • 4 Tablespoons cocoa
  • 5 Tablespoons buttermilk
  • 1 lb. powdered sugar

Boil and add 1 cups nuts and 1 teaspoon vanilla. Spread frosting on hot brownies. Um Um Good!

What Price Longevity?

Low fat this;
Low fat that;
Salt-free, sugarless,
Poly-un-sat.
With taste buds screaming,
“You’re leaving us cold,”
I’m not even sure
I want to grow old.

Doris Harmon, PEO