~from the kitchen of my loving grandmother~
Serves 8
Ingredients for Meatballs:
1-1/2 lbs. ground round
1/2 lb ground pork
1 medium onion - chopped very, very fine
1/1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon allspice
pinch of nutmeg
1 cup bread crumbs
1 egg - beaten with a fork
Directions:
Mix all together well. Form into small balls and brown in pan. I roll about ten or so and then brown. Remove from pan and put on plate nearby, and then brown another batch. When all have been browned, return all to your skillet and add a bit of water, about 1/2 cup and mix all the drippings well into it. Cover and continue to simmer for about 30 minutes, which checking often to stir and just to see how they are doing. Then make up gravy by adding a mixture of flour and water to skillet and the meatballs right there, to make a nice consistency. The more gravy the better, as you will need for potatoes which grandma always served with the meatballs. I generally taste the gravy and re-season with salt and pepper if necessary. Grandma just cut up nice potatoes into chunks and boiled in another pan until done. Then when serving meatballs, just spoon lots of gravy onto both the meatballs and potatoes.
