Meat Ball- Tomato -Rice Bake

Here is another recipe from Kansan`s Silver Spoon Cookbook of 1967. I know everyone out there in blog land is getting tired of this year of 1967, hey, it was a good year, and their is many more recipes from this paper that needs to put on the web.

Meat Ball-Tomato-Rice Bake
Mrs. Mary Frances Spalding

1 Tablespoons butter or margarine
1/2 cup fresh mushrooms, chopped or 2 -oz can
1 Tablespoons onion, chopped
1 Tablespoon flour
2 Tablespoons cream
3/4 cup Sharp American cheese, shredded
1 1/2 pounds lean ground beef
1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup packaged precooked rice
2 cans stewed tomatoes ( 1 pound)

Heat tomatoes in butter. Sauet onions and mushrooms 5 minutes. Take from heat. Stir in flour, cream and cheese. Stir over low heat until cheese melts. Chill. Shape into 4 to 5 balls. Mix meat , salt and Worcestershire sauce. Shape into 5 thick patties and make a depressions in center of each. place meat in 2-qt baking dish. Bake 10 minutes at 450 degrees. pour rice around meat. Spoon tomatoes over it. Bake 10 minutes longer. Top meat with cheese balls and return to oven until cheese melts. Serves 4.