Mrs. George Grawe’s Hawaiian Meat Balls

Ingredients

Meat Balls

• 2 pounds ground beef
• 1 egg
• 1/4 cup chopped onion
• 1/2 cup milk
• 15 crackers, finely crumbled
• 2 teaspoons salt
• Dash pepper
• 2 tablespoons oil (for browning)

Sauce

• 1 can beef stock
• 1 No. 2 can pineapple chunks and juice
• 1 green pepper, chopped in pieces
• 1/4 cup wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons cornstarch

Steps

1. Mix and form small meat balls. Brown in 2 tablespoons oil. Drain on paper towels.
2. For the sauce, mix all together. Cut pineapple chunks in half to make more pieces if you want. Simmer 15 to 20 minutes.
3. Moisten 2 tablespoons cornstarch and make thick paste. Gradually stir into sauce. Simmer until mixture is clear and slightly thickened.
4. Add meat balls and simmer 15 minutes.

Notes

Reverse side of the Mini Meat Loaves clipping (Rosie_Lee.96.jpg).

Oil and cornstarch appear only in the method text, not the printed ingredient list.

Part of the card is cut off or missing: Top of the title is slightly trimmed by the scissor cut, and the final letters at the right edge (‘more’, ‘into’, ‘thickened.’) touch the edge, but all text is legible.

Photo: stock photo found online.

Rosie Lee’s original recipe card

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