Ham Citrus Meatballs (1980)

• 2 cups ground cooked ham
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 cup orange juice
• 3 cups soft bread crumbs
• 1 tbspn onion, minced
• 1/4 cup parsley, chopped
• 2 tbspns butter
• 1/2 tspn orange rind, grated
• 1/2 tspn dried leaf sage
• 1/4 tspn dry mustard
• Hot cooked rice
• Citrus sauce (see below)

Beat eggs in medium bowl. Add orange juice and bread crumbs. Mix well, and let stand for 5 minutes. Add ham, onion, parsley, orange rind, and sage, and mix well.

Shape into 18 meatballs about 1 inch in diameter.  Heat butter in large skillet, add meatballs, and brown lightly on all sides. Add Citrus sauce. Serve with hot rice. Serves 4.

Citrus Sauce

• 3 tbspns corn starch
• 3 cups orange juice
• 2 oranges, sectioned
• 3 tbspns sugar
• 1/2 tspn onion, minced
• 3/4 tspn salt
• 1/2 tspn dry mustard
• 1/2 tspn dried leaf sage
• 1/4 tspn ginger
• 1/4 tspn black pepper
• 1 tspn vinegar
• 1 cup raisins

Blend corn starch with a small amount of the orange juice in a saucepan. Add remaining orange juice, sugar, onion, salt, dry mustard, sage, ginger, vinegar, pepper, and raisins. Mix well and cook. stirring constantly, until mixture thickens and comes to a boil. Add orange sections.

More "Lost" Oranges Recipes

Orange Galliano Liqueur Pie (1983)

Knott's Berry Farm Orange Bread with Orange Butter Icing (1976)

(Origin - "Citrus Recipes - A Collection of Favorites from the Citrus Belt"  by Al Fischer and Mildred Fischer, Golden West Publishers, 1980)