Grammie Miller's Swedish Meatballs

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 lb lean hamburger
• 1/2 cup dried breadcrumbs (about 4 slices of toasted bread put in the blender, or you can use the crumbs in a can)
• 1 egg
• 2/3 cup milk
• 2 tablespoons onions, grated
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/8 teaspoon pepper
• 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg

Recipe

• 1 mix hamburger and bread crumbs.
• 2 beat egg in milk, and then add to meat mixture.
• 3 add onion, salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and mix well. form into 1" balls.
• 4 put about 1/4 cup of oil in a frying pan. put on high to heat, then turn down to med. heat, and put in meatballs.
• 5 cook on all sides, browning until they are almost burned, but please don't burn them, just brown them well.
• 6 when done take out meatballs, and put in a dish.
• 7 to make gravy:.
• 8 put 2 cups water in the frying pan, along with the juices. let come to a boil.
• 9 meanwhile, in a cup put in 3 t. cornstarch, and fill the rest with cold water, and mix.
• 10 add to the frying pan juices to thicken into a gravy, adding a little at a time, until you get desired thickness.
• 11 when gravy is on the thick side, add meatballs.
• 12 let cook on med. heat for 15-20 minutes.