Italian Meat Balls

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Once these meatballs are made, they can be used in any recipe, or simply cover them with store-bought spaghetti sauce & serve with pasta.

This recipe was submitted to the cookbook by Gladys (Blessing) Ney. She died in 2013 at the age of 84. OBITUARY: www.findagrave.com/memorial/113652191/gladys-ney

4 slices dry bread

1 lb. ground beef

2 eggs

½ c. grated cheese

2 tbsp. fresh, chopped parsley

1 clove garlic (minced)

1 tsp. ground oregano

1 tsp. salt

oil

dash black pepper

water

Soak bread in a little water; then squeeze out.

Combine all ingredients; then shape into balls.

Brown meatballs in oil; then use as directed in recipe calling for meatballs.

SOURCE: Donegal Cookbook (1971 ed.) (The cookbook was published on the 250th anniversary of Donegal Presbyterian Church, Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish/Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The inscription in my copy indicates that Polly gave it to Hazel in January, 1972. Hazel would have been Hazel Brown, Hubby's maternal step-grandmother. She and her friend Polly [Hubby can't remember Polly's last name] lived in Carlsbad, New Mexico in the 1960s and '70s. There is no family history tying Hazel to Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch country.) SOURCE: Donegal Cookbook (1971 ed.) (The cookbook was published on the 250th anniversary of Donegal Presbyterian Church, Mt. Joy, Pennsylvania, in the heart of Pennsylvania's Amish/Pennsylvania Dutch Country. The inscription in my copy indicates that Polly gave it to Hazel in January, 1972. Hazel would have been Hazel Brown, Hubby's maternal step-grandmother. She and her friend Polly [Hubby can't remember Polly's last name] lived in Carlsbad, New Mexico in the 1960s and '70s. There is no family history tying Hazel to Amish or Pennsylvania Dutch country.)

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