Cookbook:Swedish Meatballs II

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Ingredients

Meatballs

• 3/4 lbs ground beef
• 1/2 lbs veal
• 1/4 lbs pork
• 1 1/2 cups bread crumbs
• 1/4 cup cup milk
• 1/2 cup chopped onion
• 1/4 cup ginger
• black pepper
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 cup "half & half"
• 1/4 cup parsley
• 1 tsp salt

Gravy

• 2 Tbsp butter
• 1 Tbsp flour
• 3/4 cup half & half
• 1 tsp instant coffee (can be omitted or sliced mushrooms can be used instead)

Procedure

1. Mix meat together.
2. Soak bread in milk.
3. Cook onion in butter until tender.
4. Combine meat, bread crumbs, onion, 1 cup "half & half", parsley and seasonings.
5. Make meatballs (1 inch in diameter) and very lightly brown.
6. After lightly browning meatballs, stir flour into drippings, add half & half, butter, coffee (or mushrooms).
7. Heat and stir until thickened.
8. Either add meatballs and gravy to a slow cooker and simmer until ready to eat, or add meatballs to sauce in pan and simmer for 10 minutes.