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      Title: Swedish Meatballs
 Categories: Main dish, Meats, Christmas
      Yield: 4 servings
 
      2 c  Soft bread crumbs
    2/3 c  Milk
    1/2 c  Minced onion
      4 T  Butter
  1 1/2 lb Ground beef or veal
      3 ea Eggs, slightly beaten
      2 t  Salt
    1/2 t  Pepper
      1 t  Nutmeg
      1 t  Paprika
      1 T  Concentrated meat extract
      3 T  Flour
      1 c  Water
      1 c  Sour cream
      2 T  Minced parsley
 
  Soak bread crumbs in milk until softened. Add onion to 1 Tbsp butter
  in small saucepan and cook slowly 3 minutes. Mix softened bread,
  cooked onion and meat. Add eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and paprika.
  Mix thoroughly until very smooth and light. Shape meat into small
  balls, dusting the hands with flour while shaping the balls. Melt
  remaining 3 Tbsp butter in large frying pan. Add meat balls and fry
  until golden brown all over. Remove from pan and add meat wxtract and
  3 Tbsp flour. Stir untl well blended. Add water, and a few grains of
  pepper. Cook, stirring constantly until thickened. Reduce heat very
  low and cook 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream, a rounded tablespoon at a
  time, stirring until thoroughly blended after each addition of sour
  cream. Return meat balls to gravy, cover pan and simer very gently 10
  minutes. Serve in deep casserole. Sprinkle with minced parsley.
  Yield: 70 to 80 meat balls.
 
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