6 Amish and Mennonite Meatloaf Recipes

By Kevin Williams

One of the most popular recipes for meatloaf on Amish365 is our "Marriage Meatloaf" recipe. You can read the story behind it and get the recipe for it here.

"Marriage Meatloaf"...

There is a "Skillet Meatloaf " recipe that is popular among the Amish. My mother made it recently, but she didn't do it in a skillet. I think it would have been really cool to do it in a skillet and the instructions for it are below, but the pictures are of my Mom's version which we'll call AMISH SKILLET-WITHOUT-THE-SKILLET MEATLOAF, here is the recipe and some photos!

Mix up your ground beef and veggies...

After following the recipe, pop it in the oven....

If this meatloaf looks a little small, it is....my parents cut the recipe in half since it's just the two of them...also Mom used green instead of red peppers...

2 pounds lean ground sirloin (preferably 90% lean)

½ cup barbecue sauce

½ cup dry bread crumbs

2 large beaten eggs

¼ cup diced onion

¼ cup diced green pepper

1 teaspoon salt

Additional barbecue sauce

2 tablespoons brown sugar

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.
In a large bowl, combine the ground sirloin, barbecue sauce, bread crumbs, eggs, onion, pepper and salt. Mix well.
Spray an 8" cast iron skillet with cooking spray.
Press the beef mixture into the prepared skillet.
Using the barbecue sauce, make "spokes" on the top of the meat.
Sprinkle brown sugar over the top of the meat.
Bake for 50 minutes or until it is cooked through (160 degrees internal temperature).

Serve warm.

This next meatloaf recipe is a classic dutch meatloaf with roots deep in Pennsylvania Dutch country.

Below are some more traditional meatloaf recipes found in Amish country. Not sure what the purpose of ground hot dogs is in a meatloaf, wondering if maybe that was a cheap way to stretch limited supplies of ground beef?

CLASSIC DUTCH MEATLOAF

1 ½ pound ground beef

1 cup fresh bread crumbs

1 medium-sized onion chopped

1 /2 can tomato sauce

1 egg, beaten

1 ½ teaspoons salt

1 /4 teaspoon pepper

lightly mix ingredients and form loaf. Place in shallow pan and bake at 350. While baking combine:

1 /2 can tomato sauce

1 cup water

2 tablespoons mustard

2 tablespoons vinegar

2 tablespoons brown sugar or molasses

Mix well and pour over meatloaf in oven. Baking 75 minutes longer, basting occasionally. Serve in a bed of noodles.

MEATLOAF SUPREME

1 1.2 pounds hamburger

1 1 /2 cups thick tomato juice

1 /2 cup minced onion

2 eggs

1 teaspoon salt

1 /4 teaspoon pepper

1 cup soda cracker crumbs or oatmeal

Mix all together. Place in pan. Frost it with a mixture of 1 cup ketchup, 2 teaspoons prepared mustard, and 2 tablespoons brown sugar before baking. Bake at 375 for 1 hour. Serves 8 - 10.

WIENER MEATLOAF

1 pound hamburger

1 /2 pound ground hot dogs

1 cup cracker crumbs

1 egg

1 teaspoon salt

half of glaze mixture

GLAZE
3 /4 cup brown sugar

1 /2 cup water

1 /2 teaspoon dry mustard

1 tablespoon vinegar

mix and divide glaze

Combine all ingredients. Form into a loaf and spread the other half of glaze mixture on top of laof. Bake 1 hour at 375.

And, finally, a site classic:
AMISH CHEDDAR MEATLOAF

Amish Cheddar Meatloaf

Ingredients

1 lb lean hamburger
½ c diced onion
1 c grated Amish cheddar cheese
¾ c milk
½ c oatmeal
1 egg
Sauce:
⅔ c catsup
1½tsp mustard
½ c brown sugar
dash of vinegar

Instructions

Form into a loaf and put in loaf pan.
In a separate bowl mix sauce ingredients and set aside.
Bake at 400 for 40 mins.
Top evenly with sauce (below), return to oven and bake 15 mins longer or til done.

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And, lastly, check out Rebecca Stoll's Pot Roast Meatloaf here! That meatloaf is pictured below. Yum!