Meatball Stroganoff

Name: Meatball Stroganoff
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: MEATBALLS; 1 lb lean ground beef; 1 tsp salt; ¼ tsp pepper; ½ cup milk; 1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce; 1 tsp finely chopped onion; ¼ cup corn flake crumbs; ⅛ tsp nutmeg (or paprika); 2 Tbsp flour (for rolling); 2 Tbsp shortening (for browning); SAUCE; 1 cup sour cream (or milk); 1 Tbsp vinegar; 1 can cream of mushroom soup; 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce; Cooked noodles, to serve

Marye Mains

Serves 4 Prep 25 min Cook 20 min

Meatball Stroganoff in creamy mushroom-sour cream sauce over noodles.

Marye's handwriting — page 7 of her spiral recipe notebook.

From Marye's spiral recipe notebook — a notebook of recipes Marye kept with grape-cluster illustrations on each page. This is page 7 of that notebook.

Ingredients

MEATBALLS
1 lb lean ground beef
1 tsp salt
¼ tsp pepper
½ cup milk
1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp finely chopped onion
¼ cup corn flake crumbs
⅛ tsp nutmeg (or paprika)
2 Tbsp flour (for rolling)
2 Tbsp shortening (for browning)

SAUCE
1 cup sour cream (or milk)
1 Tbsp vinegar
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 tsp Worcestershire sauce

Cooked noodles, to serve

Instructions

1. Mix together the ground beef, salt, pepper, milk, 1 Tbsp Worcestershire, chopped onion, corn flake crumbs, and nutmeg.
2. Shape into meatballs and roll in the 2 Tbsp flour.
3. Brown the meatballs slowly in the 2 Tbsp shortening. Drain.
4. Combine the sour cream, vinegar, mushroom soup, and 1 tsp Worcestershire to make the sauce.
5. Pour the sauce over the browned meatballs.
6. Heat until hot but do NOT boil.
7. Serve over noodles.