Thursday, August 9, 2018

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)  

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