Glazed Meat Loaf

2 lg. eggs
1 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 cup milk
4 slices firm textured bread, crumbled fine
2-1/2 lb. ground beef
1 lg. onion, minced
1/4 cup celery, chopped
1/4 cup chopped parsley
3/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Glaze:
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. dry mustard
1/2 cup ketchup
2 slices American cheese

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350°F. Line roasting pan with aluminium foil*; set aside. In large bowl, whisk eggs with mustard, 3/4 tsp salt and 1/4 tsp peeper until blended. Stir in milk and bread crumbs; let stand 5 minutes. Add ground beef, onion, celery** and parsley. With hands, mix lightly until well blended. Turn meat mixture into prepared pan. Moisten hands with water; shape mixture into 8x5-inch loaf. Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes. In small bowl, mix glaze ingredients until blended. Spread mixture over top of meat loaf; bake 15 minutes longer. Cut cheese in half crosswise into triangles***; arrange over top of glaze.

Comments from Christine :

* I do not bother with the aluminum foil, I just use Pam cooking spray. I am usually to busy to mess with the foil.

**My family family HATES celery so we omit it. Tastes just as good.

*** Again, My family just picks off the cheese, so I do not bother with it.

User Reviews:

thats a very tasty one but i also put on 3 strips of bacon to make it more moiccst and more yummy

Submitted by evelynn tenbusch on December 07, 2003

Yummy! Next time I make it I will make a double batch of glaze -- you can never have too much!! :)

Submitted by Ryan Snyder on October 31, 1999

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