Mini Ham Loaves

This is a family favorite. My aunt used to make them every Easter. The recipe comes from an old church cookbook. Whenever I order the meat from the meat market, I order ground ham and pork from a local meat market premixed. I order triple the meat required, packaged into three packages, give one to my mother, use one, and freeze one to use later. Serve these with horseradish.

Mini Ham Loaves Ingredients

• 1 pound ground ham

• 1 pound ground pork

• 2 cups cracker crumbs

• 1 cup milk

• 2 eggs, lightly beaten

• 1 cup brown sugar

• 1 cup cider vinegar

• cup water

• 1 tablespoon dry mustard

How to Make Mini Ham Loaves

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.

2. Combine ground ham and pork in a bowl; stir in cracker crumbs, milk, and eggs. Shape mixture into 14 small oval loaves. Place loaves into prepared baking dish.

3. Mix brown sugar, cider vinegar, water, and dry mustard in a bowl, stirring until brown sugar has dissolved. Pour mixture over ham loaves.

4. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour; flip and bake until juices run clear and an instant-read meat thermometer inserted into the center of a loaf reads 160 degrees F (70 degrees C), about 30 more minutes.

Mini Ham Loaves Nutritions

• Calories: 549.4 calories

• Carbohydrate: 47.4 g

• Cholesterol: 134.3 mg

• Fat: 26.1 g

• Fiber: 0.7 g

• Protein: 28.7 g

• SaturatedFat: 9 g

• ServingSize:

• Sodium: 1125.2 mg

• Sugar: 32.4 g

• TransFat:

• UnsaturatedFat:

Mini Ham Loaves Reviews

• Very good,but I tweaked the recipe. The butcher suggest a ratio of 2:1. Therefore I used 1 1/4 pounds ground pork and 3/4 pounds ham. Also used bread crumbs instead of crackers. Used a generous 1/3 cup measuring cup to make consistent loafs to get 14. Next time would use 1/2 cup. The smaller 1/3 loaves I flip at one hour and tested temp and they were already done. I left in oven so glaze could caramelize on both sided. Then popped under the broiler to brown.

• I wanted to use up Christmas ham pieces and have a delicious appetizer for New Years Eve. I didnt have any ground pork or ground beef but I did have ground elk. My daughter and I rolled them into little cocktail meatballs. I baked them until brown then covered with sauce and finished baking them. THESE ARE DELICIOUS

• Six mini ham loaves (half recipe) = six delicious portions of meat. With 3 of us eating I just halved the recipe. The one change I made was I brought the glaze to a boil on the stovetop before adding it to the raw meat. I saved part of the glaze to add after the meat was cooked and basted 2-3 times while the meat was cooking. This is a delicious recipe that my family really enjoyed. I served this with Spinach and Sweet Corn Mashed Potatoes another AR recipe and a simple salad. Ive made ham loaves many, many times, but this was the first time I formed them in mini loaves. I liked it better than making 1 large loaf. Thanks, Deb, for sharing your version of Ham Loaf.

• This is the recipe my mother always used. It is wonderful She always glazed it with a brown sugar/yellow mustard glaze and served it with a sour cream/horse raddish sauce. It was an Easter tradition at our house

• This was a delicious I could not find ground pork that was not mixed with ground beef, so I used that along with the ham, next time I would use more ham than the pork to give it a more authentic "ham loaf" taste. The sauce was perfect how it was. I made the "mashed cauliflower" with it and it was a hearty meal Thanks again for sharing this recipe

• I used lean ground beef and made 15 loaves (3 rows of 5).

• Yes I made this and got compliments on how delicious it was. I served it with broiled brussell sprouts topped with crumbled bacon, was so delicious

• This was very good and very easy, but I would prefer a different sauce for the top. It had a good ham flavor. Next time I will make it and use a topping from some of my other ham loaf/ball recipes.

• This is the best ham loaf recipe I have ever tried. I make the recipe as written and freeze half for later.

• They are delicious I had more than enough of the glaze so Ill cut that in half next time. Also, looking for a sauce to serve with these...but they are a winner

• Fantastic

• I made this into one big loaf. it was delicious and kids loved it.