Recipes for Sausages, Ready-to-Serve and Canned Meats
Sausage Links In Batter Pudding
- 1 pound sausage links
- 2 cups milk
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ cup corn meal
- 4 eggs
Heat milk in double boiler. Add salt and corn meal. Stir constantly and cook 10 to 15 minutes, or until thickened. Cool slightly. Beat eggs and add to mixture. Pour mixture into a well-greased 2-quart baking dish, and place sausage links on top. Bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for 40 to 45 minutes. 4 servings.
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Fruit Juice
Sausage Links in Batter Pudding
Green Beans
Stuffed Tomato Salad
Strawberry Sundae
Angel Food Cake
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Frankfurter and Sauerkraut Pie
- 8 frankfurters, cut in half crosswise
- 3 cups seasoned mashed potatoes
- 2 teaspoons minced onion
- 1 No. 2 can sauerkraut
- ½ teaspoon dill seed
Combine seasoned mashed potatoes and onion and line bottom and sides of a greased baking dish with mixture. Fill center with sauerkraut and sprinkle with dill seed. Arrange frankfurters in pinwheel fashion on top of sauerkraut. Bake in a moderate oven (350° F.) for 20 minutes. 4 to 6 servings.
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Frankfurter and Sauerkraut Pie
Tomato-Onion Salad
Hard Rolls
Butter or Margarine
Baked Custard
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Chipped Beef Potato Dumplings
- ½ pound chipped beef
- ¼ cup lard or drippings
- ¼ cup flour
- 1 13-ounce can evaporated milk
- 1½ cups potato water
- ¼ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- Pepper
- Potato Dumplings
Brown chipped beef lightly in lard or drippings. Blend in flour and gradually stir in evaporated milk, potato water and Worcestershire sauce. Cook until thickened, stirring constantly. Season with pepper. Serve over potato dumplings. 6 to 8 servings.
Potato Dumplings
- 4 medium potatoes, boiled
- ½ cup sifted enriched flour
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- 2 tablespoons grated onion
- ½ cup dry bread crumbs
- 1½ teaspoons melted butter or margarine
- 1 egg, slightly beaten
- 3 quarts boiling water
- ½ teaspoon salt
Rice potatoes. Sift together flour, baking powder, salt, and pepper. Combine riced potatoes, flour mixture, onion, bread crumbs, butter or margarine and egg. Mix well. Shape into 12 small balls and dredge lightly with flour. Chill. Drop dumplings into boiling salted water. Cover and boil for 15 minutes.
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Chipped Beef Potato Dumplings
Broccoli
Perfection Salad
Hard Rolls
Butter or Margarine
Daffodil Cake
Beverage
Southern Sausage Breakfast
- 1 pound bulk pork sausage
- ½ cup currants
- 3 cups boiling water
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup corn meal
- Flour
Add currants to boiling water. Cook 5 minutes. Add salt and corn meal, stirring constantly. Cook until thickened. Pour mush into greased 5 × 9-inch loaf pan. Chill.
Shape sausage into 6 patties. Brown patties slowly. Pour off drippings. Cover, continue cooking slowly 20 minutes.
Slice mush ½ inch thick. Dredge slices in flour and brown in sausage drippings. 4 servings.
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Orange Juice
Southern Sausage Breakfast
Scrambled Eggs
Hot Biscuits
Butter or Margarine
Honey or Syrup
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Summer Salad Bowl
- ¼ pound summer sausage, cut in strips
- ¼ pound bologna, cut in strips
- 1 medium-size head lettuce
- 1 tablespoon chopped onion
- 2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
- 5 slices bacon, chopped
- ½ cup bacon drippings
- ¼ cup vinegar
- ½ teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Break lettuce into pieces. Add summer sausage, bologna, onion and blue cheese. Cook bacon until crisp, drain and save drippings. Mix bacon with other ingredients. Add vinegar and Worcestershire sauce to ½ cup drippings, heat and pour over salad just before serving. Toss lightly. 4 to 6 servings.
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Celery Soup
Summer Salad Bowl
Potato Chips
Relishes
French Bread
Butter or Margarine
Chocolate Cake
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Fruited Ham Rolls
- 8 slices “boiled” ham, cut ⅛ inch thick
- 1 cup chopped, dried apricots
- 3 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 3 tablespoons flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1½ cups cooked rice
- ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
Soak apricots until soft. Make a cream sauce as follows: melt butter or margarine, add flour, stirring until blended. Add milk, cook, stirring constantly, until thickened. Add apricots, rice and nutmeg to cream sauce; mix well. Place about ¼ cup of rice mixture on each ham slice, roll like jelly roll. Fasten with wooden picks. Place rolls in baking dish, bake in moderate oven (350° F.) 20 minutes or until heated through. 8 servings.
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Fruited Ham Rolls
Potato Balls
Asparagus
Carrot-Raisin Salad
Hard Rolls
Butter or Margarine
Chocolate Pudding
Beverage
Smoky Sausage Spaghetti Sauce
- 1 pound smoked sausage links
- 3 tablespoons lard or drippings
- ½ cup minced onion
- 1 green pepper, cut in thin strips
- ½ pound fresh mushrooms or
- 1 small can mushrooms
- 12 stuffed olives, sliced
- ¼ teaspoon garlic salt
- 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 No. 2½ can tomatoes
- 1 8-ounce package spaghetti
- Grated Parmesan cheese, if desired
Slice sausage links diagonally in ½-inch pieces. Cook sausage, onion, green pepper and mushrooms in lard or drippings until lightly browned. Add olives, garlic salt, tomato sauce and tomatoes. Simmer at least 2 hours. Cook spaghetti in boiling salted water until tender. Rinse and drain. Serve sauce over spaghetti and sprinkle with grated Parmesan cheese, if desired. 4 to 6 servings.
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Smoky Sausage
Spaghetti Sauce
Mixed Vegetable Salad
Garlic French Bread
Butter or Margarine
Ice Cream
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Cherry Meat Muffins
- 1 12-ounce can luncheon meat, ground
- 1 cup soft bread crumbs
- 1 egg, well beaten
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 teaspoon prepared mustard
Combine ingredients in order given, mix thoroughly. Pack mixture into medium-size muffin pans, filling each ⅔ full. Bake in slow oven (300° F.) for 30 to 45 minutes. Serve with Cherry Sauce. 3 to 4 servings.
Cherry Sauce
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- ¼ cup sugar
- 1 cup cherry juice
- 1 cup pitted red cherries
Combine cornstarch, sugar and cherry juice. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until thick and clear. Add cherries and serve hot over meat muffins.
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Cherry Meat Muffins
Baked Potatoes
Asparagus
Head Lettuce Salad
Hard Rolls
Butter or Margarine
Lemon Chiffon Cake
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