Got nostalgic today and decided to drag
out one of Mom's old recipes, typed in red, a few crossed out lines
over the years but over all a darn good casserole.
Hungry Boys Casserole 1963 winner of
the Pillsbury bake off. Mom must have seen the recipe and decided to
try it. She followed the recipe faithfully at least once and after
that she left out the Lima beans and the biscuits baked on top.
Today I have more or less faithfully followed the original except I
left out the Lima beans, left out the Accent (mono-sodium glutamate)
and I did not follow the biscuit recipe as the canned pop open
biscuits work VERY well. So here goes:
1 ½ pounds ground beef or turkey
1
cup sliced celery
1 clove garlic minced
¾ cup (6 oz)
tomato paste
½ cup chopped onion
¾ cup water
½ cup chopped green bell pepper
One 1
lb can of chick peas or Lima beans un-drained
One 1 lb can of pork & beans
Biscuits
1 ½ cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¼ cup butter
½ cup milk
4 tsp yellow food
coloring
½ cup chopped stuffed green olives
¼
cup blanched slivered almonds
DIRECTIONS:
Saute in skilled: meat of choice,
onion, green pepper, garlic until veggies are tender: Drain, add
water, tomato paste, salt, paprika and Accent (NO NO NO NO!!!).
Reserve one cup for biscuit filling.
Add beans and peas, simmer: Prepare
biscuits-- Sift flour with butter and salt, cut in butter until fine,
combine milk and coloring. Add to flour mixture. Stir until
moist;knead on floured board 12 times. Roll to12 x 9 inch rectangle.
Combine olives, almonds and reserved
meat, Spread over dough,roll up starting with 12 inch side,cut into
one inch pieces. Place meat mixture in 12 x 8 or 11 round baking
dish. Top with biscuits. Bake at 425 degrees F for 25 to 30
minutes.
Canned bickies: Roll out each one,
fill with meat mixture, roll up, cut in half pop on top of meat
mixture in your baking dish, makes 12 biscuits, bake at 350 for about
20 minutes.
Husbands review: He ate it RIGHT OUT
OF THE OVEN. Declared it delicious! He looks forward to having some
tomorrow when it has had a chance to cool and ever so gently thicken
up.
So do any of my siblings remember
eating this dish? And if you did, did you like it?
3 comments:
I don't recall every eating that with or without lima beans. Overall? I think mom was a mediocre cook, just saying
gale
I do remember this dish and I quite liked it, but I am probably (actually I know) I am the odd man out, I liked Mom's cooking. I still to this day make a lot dishes we had as kids. The only thing I could not tolerate then/now is milk toast. Just the thought of slimy bread in milk makes my stomach roll.... EJ
Yeah milk toast is disgusting and I don't remember her ever making "Graveyard stew" Dad did like to tear up bread in a glass, top with sugar and milk. That was ugly too,
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