This week’s recipe is once again due to the fantastic recipe choosing skills of our patrons over on Patreon. Not only are they supporting the site and totally deserve our recognition, but twice a month they are also deciding what food poor Tom has to shove down his gullet.
Luckily, this week’s recipe is appropriately gullet-sized.
These are Broiled Humdingers!
AuthorRetroRuth
Broiled Humdingers - Quaker Surprise Recipes - 32 New Recipes and Pictures
Tested Recipe!
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Combine luncheon meat, rolled oats, milk, ketchup and prepared mustard. Shape into balls (chill if desired). Place on peach halves.
Put in a shallow pan in broiler, about 4 inches from source of heat.
Broil until meat is lightly browned, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Yield: 6 servings
Ingredients
Directions
Combine luncheon meat, rolled oats, milk, ketchup and prepared mustard. Shape into balls (chill if desired). Place on peach halves.
Put in a shallow pan in broiler, about 4 inches from source of heat.
Broil until meat is lightly browned, about 8 to 10 minutes.
Yield: 6 servings
Now, I am sure that the patrons didn’t just choose this recipe because of the excellent, excellent name. There is also a whole can of SPAM involved! It was exciting for everyone when they choose this. Mostly me, because I got to smoosh up the SPAM. And if you haven’t done that before, it is really fun. (Oh, and if you are wondering where the rest of those peaches are from the large jar, they will be making an appearance on here in a few weeks!)
Mushed up SPAM, oatmeal, ketchup, milk, and mustard.
There. It wouldn’t be a true mid-century recipe if the recipe didn’t look totally and completely like cat food at one point.
There, now they are cute again! It was actually really fun to put these together. It was NOT fun trying to get them to balance. If you are going to make this recipe, you might want to consider flattening the bottom of the peaches so they stay upright!
Also, because I know you are looking, that is not a vintage pan. Nordicware, in their infinite wisdom, released these pans for a tie-in with Frozen II. They are “snowflake” pans, but they look like almost an exact copy of vintage Ovenenx starburst. Which made me very, very happy!
Ta-Da! Broiled to perfection. Overall, these were actually quite easy to put together. I was pleased with how good they looked when they were done.
And they actually smelled good.
Here is one taken apart for tasting purposes, so you can see the goo inside.
And now, the man who eats all the goo.
“Not bad. Sweet and salty.”
The Verdict: Sweet and Salty
From The Tasting Notes –
These worked. They actually worked. They were very salty, and also very sweet, but they balanced each other out well. So well, in fact, that if you got a bite of the SPAM patty without the peach, it didn’t taste good at all. I ran out of peaches and had to make just a patty on its own. After trying to choke the lone patty down, Tom gave up and snagged some peach from one of the kid’s plates so he could actually eat it. So you could say that the peach is essential to making this dish work. The patty itself is highly seasoned and so salty you can barely taste the ketchup. The oats blended in pretty well, but I was aware of them in the mix a couple of times while chewing. Overall, these worked pretty well. Just make sure you have lots of water handy afterward, or use reduced-sodium SPAM. Eating these for lunch made everyone thirsty for the rest of the afternoon.
On the sweet to salty front one of my favorite combos is canned peaches as a side to corn beef hash!
Real shocker on those pans. When I saw them in the Patreon in-process posts I immediately assumed they were vintage because they look *so* much like a fancy vintage pan.
Spam is quite a bit better than its reputation, other than being so salty. My husband spent many years in Hawaii, which never got on the hate-Spam bandwagon, and where they use it a lot in convenience foods and even things like Spam sushi. Once (long ago) a friend’s mother asked him to take a care package box to a friend when he flew back to college. It was incredibly heavy and a real struggle to bring along. When he finally got it to his friend, he asked to see what he’d spent so much effort bringing across the Pacific. The box was entirely filled with cans of Spam! The mom assumed since mainlanders hated Spam so much her son wouldn’t be able to buy any there.
Ha! That is an adorable story!
That is a great idea!!!
I have to admit that when I voted, I did not read the recipe beyond Spam and oatmeal and making patties; I completely missed the part about the peaches. So this is a double surprise!
I was ready for an epic fail because of the salt level. So glad I’m wrong! 🙂 I wonder if this would work with those red spiced apple rings in a jar (do they even make those anymore? — goes to Google — yep, they do).
Thank you for the line about cat food — it gave me a much-needed hearty laugh!
I grew up on fried spam with the brown sugar and pineapple rings on top, and I’m from the Midwest. I still have a fondness for it!
Agree about the pans-I went right to Nordic Ware and ordered some of my own. Love them!
so its spam meatloaf on a peach…. but I don’t think it’s just the spam …. something makes meatloaf very salty also,…. could you chop up the peaches and put them n the meatloaf?
Best sentence in this entry: “It wouldn’t be a true mid-century recipe if the recipe didn’t look totally and completely like cat food at one point.”
I actually laughed out loud at that.
We ate these as a kid when I was growing up in the 70s and all six of us kids liked them. We referred to the meal as ‘Spam on peaches’. Not one of our respective spouses could get onboard with even trying them! 😂 P.S. the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies in the recipe collection was also a family favorite.