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Dasheen Loaf

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Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 lb. dasheen
  • 2 oz. flour
  • 1 lb. ground beef
  • 2 oz magarine
  • 1 onion
  • 1 c. milk
  • 1/2 lb. cheese
  • 3 tbs. cooking oil
  • salt to taste
  • 2 tbs. tomato ketchup
  • 1 blade chive

Directions

  1. Cook and crush dasheen.
  2. Make cheese sauce by melting margarine, add flour and blend well, add milk slowly to avoid lumps, return to heat and stir constantly until thick, add cheese.
  3. Eave until cheese melts.
  4. Cook meat with seasonings, until tender.
  5. Mix dasheen mixture and add cheese sauce.
  6. Line bottom and sides of dish with bacon, (or grease with margarine).
  7. Put in a layer of dasheen, then a layer of meat.
  8. Continue in layers and finishing with dasheen.
  9. Cover with bacon (or dots of margarine).
  10. Bake in over 350F for 30 min.