Elaine Weidman’s Spanish Rice

Ingredients

• 1 pound hamburger
• 1 small onion, chopped
• 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
• 1 cup cooked rice
• 1/2 cup grated cheese
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• Dash of Italian seasoning
• Tomato juice
• 1/3 cup water

Steps

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. In a skillet, brown the hamburger, onion and green pepper until the beef is cooked through.
3. Add the rice, then stir in the cheese, salt, pepper, chili powder and Italian seasoning.
4. Pour the mixture into a baking dish. Add enough tomato juice to cover the hamburger mixture, then stir in the water.
5. Bake for 1 hour.

Notes

Sharon Whitney of Kennewick, Washington, asked the column for a rice dish from the early 1980s with beef, onions, bell peppers and maybe mushrooms; readers said it sounded like Spanish Rice, and Elaine Weidman of Newburg, Pennsylvania, sent this version.

The recipe starts on one magazine page and finishes on the next; both pages are shown below.

From a “Recipe Box” reader-recipe column in a farm magazine that Rosie Lee saved; the whole pages are shown below.

Photo: the dish pictured in the column.

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