Recipe: Peg Bracken's Pedro's Special (I Hate to Cook Book, 1960)

PEDRO'S SPECIAL

1 lb ground round steak
1 chopped onion
1 garlic clove, minced
1 can tomato sauce plus 1/3 can tomato juice, consomme, or water
1 ordinary poind can kidney or chili beans with liquid
1/4 teaspoon oregano
2 tablespoons chili powder
1 can or bag corn chips
a bit of lettuce
more chopped onion

Brown together, in a little oil, the ground meat, onions, and garlic.

Stir in the tomato sauce, oregano, and chili powder.

Now dust off a good-sized casserole, grease it, and alternate layers of this mixture with layers of beans and corn chips, ending with corn chips.

Bake it, covered, at 350 degrees F for forty-five minutes, and uncover it for the last ten.

Before you serve it, strew some shredded lettuce and chopped raw onion on top, for the Olde-Tyme Mexicali look.

Source: The I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken, 1960