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> elaine wrote:
>> I don't know if there is such a recipe. I make a lasagna with
>> bechamel sauce and love it.
>>
>> I could brown the meat, add breadcrumbs, carrots, mushrooms and
>> onions; some spices, then cheese and bechamel sauce.
>>
>> I can't be bothered to do a lasagna and don't have the cheeses on
>> hand anyway. D'you think this would work? Also I have milk in the
>> fridge that I should use up. Buy it for the kids, they leave and
>> I'm usually stuck with it and end up throwing it out.
>>
>> Elaine
>
> Well, I think the original SOS was browned hamburger in a white
> (bechamel) sauce.
>
If you ask my father he would say NO, and he's 80 years old and enlisted in
1941. They didn't have the facilities to store ground beef on ships so they
used dried beef.

Jill

> That might be what I'd do - anyway, if you like your ingredients all
> put together, go ahead and do it. It might not be the best idea, but
> it would be edible.
>
I like Sheldon's idea of grinding your beef and all the veggies together.
You have to have a grinder and room to store that much beef, however.

> N.

Not sure at all about a bechamel sauce with meatloaf but it actually has
more appeal to me than tomato sauce. I hate tomato sauce and ketchup on
meatloaf.

Jill