Grandma's Recipes for Mother and Daughter

by American Molasses Company

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN LOAF

Topping

1 tablespoon butter or margarine

2 tablespoons GRANDMA’S MOLASSES

1 tablespoon sugar

3 slices pineapple

3 maraschino cherries

Ham Loaf

2½ cups (1 lb.) cooked, ground ham

2 cups (1 lb.) uncooked, ground pork

1 cup crushed corn flakes

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon pepper

1 teaspoon dry mustard

2 eggs, beaten

¼ cup milk

Heat oven to 350° F. (moderate). Melt butter or margarine in 4x9x3-inch loaf pan, measured across bottom. Stir in molasses and sugar; spread uniformly over bottom of pan. Arrange pineapple and cherries over molasses-butter mixture. Mix all ingredients for ham loaf in order given. Spread mixture in pan over pineapple; press down. Bake 1 hour. Turn out on hot platter with pineapple and cherries on top.

YIELD: 16 slices, ½ inch thick.