Hot Tamales - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 lb. ground beef or hamburger
1 1/2 lb. pork sausage
4 lb. meal (self-rising)
1 c. flour
2 Tbsp. salt
1 c. shortening
1 c. chili powder or 2 large cans Mexene chili powder
1 bottle garlic salt

Preparation

Mix meal, salt, warm shortening and water to a thick dough. Mix sausage and ground beef together.
Cut square cloths about 5-inch square; wet and spread on table.
Pat a layer of dough real thin; flatten a ball of meat to cover dough.
Sprinkle chili over meat; sprinkle garlic powder over chili.
Roll up and tie each end and in the middle.
Put into boiling water and boil for 1 hour.
Makes 3 dozen.