Swedish Meatballs

Title: Swedish Meatballs
Categories: Main dish, Meats, Christmas
Yield: 4 servings

2 c Soft bread crumbs
2/3 c Milk
1/2 c Minced onion
4 T Butter
1 1/2 lb Ground beef or veal
3 ea Eggs, slightly beaten
2 t Salt
1/2 t Pepper
1 t Nutmeg
1 t Paprika
1 T Concentrated meat extract
3 T Flour
1 c Water
1 c Sour cream
2 T Minced parsley

Soak bread crumbs in milk until softened. Add onion to 1 Tbsp butter
in small saucepan and cook slowly 3 minutes. Mix softened bread,
cooked onion and meat. Add eggs, salt, pepper, nutmeg and paprika.
Mix thoroughly until very smooth and light. Shape meat into small
balls, dusting the hands with flour while shaping the balls. Melt
remaining 3 Tbsp butter in large frying pan. Add meat balls and fry
until golden brown all over. Remove from pan and add meat wxtract and
3 Tbsp flour. Stir untl well blended. Add water, and a few grains of
pepper. Cook, stirring constantly until thickened. Reduce heat very
low and cook 5 minutes. Stir in sour cream, a rounded tablespoon at a
time, stirring until thoroughly blended after each addition of sour
cream. Return meat balls to gravy, cover pan and simer very gently 10
minutes. Serve in deep casserole. Sprinkle with minced parsley.
Yield: 70 to 80 meat balls.