I have two German grandmothers from the Cincinnati/NKY area. (Maiden names were Krieg and Hoppenjans. If that's not German enough, I don't know what is.) Both took their goetta recipes with them to the grave. The two kinds of goetta were very different from each other - but both were very good. I've been fiddling around and I think I've developed a little bit of a cross between the two. I like it, anyway.

 

5 1/2 cups water

14 oz. can beef broth

1 1/2 lbs ground beef

1 lb ground pork

2 1/2 cups pinhead/steel-cut oats (they're the same thing)

3 teaspoons salt

Pinch or two of pepper

1 large onion, finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon sage

3 bay leaves

 

Add water, oats, salt and pepper to the crock pot, mix, cover, and cook 1 1/2 hours on high.

 

Pre-mix beef and pork together (just like kneading dough) prior to cooking. Add remaining ingredients to the mixture in the crock pot, mix, cover, and cook for 5 hours on low. Stir every hour or so.

 

After 5 hours, remove cover and cook for a half-hour uncovered, stirring every 5-10 minutes.

 

Dish into a loaf pan, cover it, and refrigerate or freeze it. To serve it, slice it into 1/4" sections and fry. Amazing with eggs and toast.

 

Sure does bring back memories. Had a grand mother that made it. What a process, but nothing touches homemade goetta. The bay leaf thing is funny. I guess at some point you're supposed to remove the bay leaves. She missed one, and it was in a piece that I was eating. She had hanging plant baskets in the kitchen and I thought a leaf had fallen into the goetta when she was preparing it. When I showed it to her, and told her I wasn't eating it, because who knows what that leaf is, she told me it was a bay leaf and just to remove it and it was ok. Well I didn't know what bay leaves were, and told her she was making it up. She promptly pulled a ruler out of no where and cracked me on my wrist. I ate the goetta and told her how good it was. I had forgotten about that until I saw your post. My grandmother passed in the spring at the age of 98. She was one of the great ones. I miss her.

I have two German grandmothers from the Cincinnati/NKY area. (Maiden names were Krieg and Hoppenjans. If that's not German enough, I don't know what is.) Both took their goetta recipes with them to the grave. The two kinds of goetta were very different from each other - but both were very good. I've been fiddling around and I think I've developed a little bit of a cross between the two. I like it, anyway.

 

5 1/2 cups water

14 oz. can beef broth

1 1/2 lbs ground beef

1 lb ground pork

2 1/2 cups pinhead/steel-cut oats (they're the same thing)

3 teaspoons salt

Pinch or two of pepper

1 large onion, finely chopped

1/2 teaspoon sage

3 bay leaves

 

Add water, oats, salt and pepper to the crock pot, mix, cover, and cook 1 1/2 hours on high.

 

Pre-mix beef and pork together (just like kneading dough) prior to cooking. Add remaining ingredients to the mixture in the crock pot, mix, cover, and cook for 5 hours on low. Stir every hour or so.

 

After 5 hours, remove cover and cook for a half-hour uncovered, stirring every 5-10 minutes.

 

Dish into a loaf pan, cover it, and refrigerate or freeze it. To serve it, slice it into 1/4" sections and fry. Amazing with eggs and toast.

 

I have to admit I think Goetta is absolutely the most repulsive thing ever...that said, my husband LOVES it and will buy the Frisch's breakfast bar on the weekends just to get it. So, being the wonderful wife I am (insert pat on the back here), I'm going to try this. I should at least get some brownie points for trying to make it. Thanks for the recipe...

Sure does bring back memories. Had a grand mother that made it. What a process, but nothing touches homemade goetta. The bay leaf thing is funny. I guess at some point you're supposed to remove the bay leaves. She missed one, and it was in a piece that I was eating. She had hanging plant baskets in the kitchen and I thought a leaf had fallen into the goetta when she was preparing it. When I showed it to her, and told her I wasn't eating it, because who knows what that leaf is, she told me it was a bay leaf and just to remove it and it was ok. Well I didn't know what bay leaves were, and told her she was making it up. She promptly pulled a ruler out of no where and cracked me on my wrist. I ate the goetta and told her how good it was. I had forgotten about that until I saw your post. My grandmother passed in the spring at the age of 98. She was one of the great ones. I miss her.

 

Man, thanks for posting. I was glad to read that.

I have to admit I think Goetta is absolutely the most repulsive thing ever...that said, my husband LOVES it and will buy the Frisch's breakfast bar on the weekends just to get it. So, being the wonderful wife I am (insert pat on the back here), I'm going to try this. I should at least get some brownie points for trying to make it. Thanks for the recipe...

 

 

Watch out, or you might get stuck being the wife who hates goetta, but has to make it for her husband and everyone he tells "Guess what! My wife can make her own goetta!" :lol:

 

That's exactly what happened to my buddy's wife. She hates it, he loves it. She has a family recipe that she knows how to make, he gladly brags on it to everyone in order to get "Hey, do you think she could make it for me some time?" orders from folks he knows (and conveniently reap the benefits of having the extras from the batch to himself).