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PATRON + RECIPE WEDNESDAY: Meat-substitute loaf from the 1920s

Sometimes our grandmother’s cooked main dishes without meat – like this meat substitute loaf

Mrs Kirby Baking 1939 (Library of Congress)

Meat-Substitute Loaf

  • 1 cupful of cooked salted rice
  • 1 cupful of crushed peanuts
  • 1 egg
  • 1 cupful of cottage cheese
  • 2 tablespoonfuls of chopped onion cooked until soft in ½ cupful of water
  • 1 tablespoonful of fat
  • ¼ teaspoonful of pepper
  • 1 teaspoonful of salt-

Make into a loaf and bake. Serve hot with tomato sauce.

Vinegar of the Four Thieves was a recipe that was known for its antibacterial, antiviral, antiseptic and antifungal properties for years. It was even used to cure the Bubonic Plague. See Thomas Jefferson’s recipe and many more old recipes from the past in Vinegar of the Four Thieves: Recipes & Curious Tips from the Past

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2 comments

  1. Robin Stard, change the fat to coconut oil (?)