Recipe for Hunt's Tomato Sauce Ground Beef and Rice Pie

While grocery shopping recently, I picked up some basis beef. It wasn't on the list; my general thought process was something like, "Hey, this is on sale, and I've got a lot of bookmarked recipes calling for ground beefiness." I got home and looked through my bookmarks, and realized they were all fairly silly or complicated (or both). This seemed to be the most harmless selection, with the added benefit of existence a little scrap featherbrained.

Here I am, in a blue-cheque apron, making Hamburger-Rice Pie. (Only one pound of meat! OOOOOH!) Really, how could I possibly resist this, since I am already pictured in the advertisement making it?

Hamburger-Rice Pie

one lb. ground beef
1/two cup fine dry bread
1/iv cup chopped onion
i/four loving cup chopped greenish pepper
1-1/2 tsp. saalt
one/4 tsp. pepper
two cans Hunt's Lycopersicon esculentum Sauce
three cups cooked rice
one/2 cup grated American cheese, if desired

Mix beef, bread crumbs, onion, green pepper, seasonings, and 1/ii can Hunt'due south Tomato Sauce. Spread in greased nine-inch pie pan, pushing mixture in sides of pan to form an edge. Mix rice, cheese, and remaining sauce. Place in meat beat out. Bake in moderate oven (350°F.) 30-35 minutes or until meat is washed. Cut into pie-shaped pieces. Makes six servings.

A little odd sounding, just the ingredients are straightforward.

Almost everything goes into the chaff, however — meat, crumbs, vegetables, and even table salt and pepper.

And so it gets squished into the pie pan to class a "crust."

At this indicate, the heart child walked into the kitchen and declared, "This smells like chips."

It didn't smell like chips. Besides, he likes chips, so I don't know why he pulled his "I am suspicious of what you are cooking" face.

Hither's the weirdest thing about this recipe — wait closely at this serving from the advertisement. Those greenish $.25 are green pepper, right? Well, actually they sort of look like olives, but green pepper is in the ingredient list. However, the green pepper is suppose to be added to the meat crust, not the rice filling. Did they magically float up through the filling while baking? Or did the photographer realize that, without a chip of texture for contrast, the filling looked thoroughly unappetizing?

Possibly heart kid is correct to exist suspicious.

This is what the rice, as the recipe calls for, actually looks similar. No green bits! (And slightly less orange.)

Since the American cheese is only an ingredient "if desired," I decided we didn't want American cheese tonight. Instead, the rice filling was seasoned with an Italian herb blend and plenty of Parmesan cheese. (I can't fathom anybody thinking that American cheese would pair well with lycopersicon esculentum sauce.)

Since the oldest kid is lactose intolerant, I filled in one "wedge" of pie with just sauce and rice. (It's marked at the edges with toothpicks.)

The affair I really don't like about cooking meat in a pan — meatloaf, for case — is that all the melted fatty just hangs around instead of draining off. This was no exception.

Also interesting to notation? The pie filling ends upwards looking similar raw meat even when the "crust" is fully cooked through, which is mildly disconcerting.

I like to endeavour to make a "pretty" serving, and then I can have a dainty picture to finish up the postal service. This was tough to do, however, because the first few pie pieces just didn't hold together at all — I merely got blobs.

Later cooling for a few minutes (and spooning out A LOT of juice and fat), the crust and filling had congealed somewhat and made serving simpler.

Aside from messy serving, this tasted pretty darn good. Imagine spaghetti and meatballs, merely with the meatballs spread flat and put under the spaghetti, and the spaghetti is rice. Of course, since it falls autonomously easily, you end upwardly with meat chunks mixed throughout the filling. Take the time to season the filling, and information technology'due south a fairly easy and tasty meal.

Add some American cheese, on the other manus, and I don't think you lot'll similar information technology one petty bit!

This Hunt's love apple sauce ad appeared in Life Magazine in 1948, and now appears online at The Gallery of Graphic Design.

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Source: https://retrorecipe.wordpress.com/2012/07/09/hamburger-rice-pie/

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