Recipe: French Meat Pie or Dressing, French Stuffing, Tourquire Casserole (stuffed pumpkin)

French Meat Pie

2 lb. ground beef
1 lb. ground pork
1 onion
4 or 5 potatoes
Table salt
Little pepper
1 cup water
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. cloves
1 unbaked pie crust

Dice onion and cook with hamburg and pork until meat is partially cooked.

Add other ingredients and cook until potatoes are done. Mash with cinnamon and cloves. Cool off.

Put in pie crust and bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour. Also makes good dressing.

French Stuffing
This ingredient list came without instructions but the method is probably the same as for the previous or following recipe.

2 lb. ground pork
2 lb. hamburger beef
5 lb. potatoes, mashed
2 onions, cut sm.
2 stalks celery, chopped
4 tsp. cinnamon
1 tsp. cloves
Dash of allspice

Tourquire Casserole (stuffed pumpkin)

1 whole fresh pumpkin, medium size
1 lb pork, lean and finely ground
1 lb. beef, lean and finely ground
1 large Spanish onion, finely chopped
1/8 tsp. ground cloves
1/8 tsp. ground nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground sage
Salt and pepper to taste
1 to 1 1/2 cups fresh mashed potatoes

Cut a hat (or lid) in the top of pumpkin and clean all seeds out of the interior. Rinse out the interior and dry with a paper towel. Set pumpkin aside.

Saute beef and pork slowly until cooked. Remove from the pan and drain the fat from the meat.

Saute the onion in butter until golden. Add the meat and spices together and heat.

Add enough mashed potatoes to meat mixture to hold it together, and place mixture in the pumpkin cavity. Place filled pumpkin in a pie pan with 1/4 inch of water in the bottom of the pan.

Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for approximately 45 minutes, or until the pumpkin sinks or contracts somewhat. A toothpick should come out clean when done.

NOTE: Spices may be adjusted to taste, and allspice may be used as well.

Hi Tom,

Maybe these are similar to the recipe you're looking for?

Happy Cooking!

Betsy