Swedish Meatballs - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 1/2 lbs ground beef
2 cups potatoes, peeled, cooked, and mashed
1 small grated onion
1/4 cup chopped peeled cooked beets
2 tablespoons chopped dill pickles
2 eggs
2 teaspoons salt (to taste)
1/4 teaspoon pepper (to taste)
4 tablespoons butter or 4 tablespoons margarine
3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1 cup beef broth
1 cup milk
1/2 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
hot cooked noodles

Preparation

Mix ground beef lightly with mashed potatoes, onion, beets, dill pickles, eggs, 1 tsp salt, and pepper until well blended.
Shape into 36 meatballs, then flatten each slightly.
Brown, a few at a time, in butter or margarine, in a large frying pan, adding butter or margarine as needed.
When cooked through, remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Blend flour and remaining tsp of salt into dripping in pan (add more black pepper if you like); stir in the beef broth, milk, nutmeg, and Worcestershire sauce.
Cook, stirring constantly, until the gravy thickens.
Place the meatballs in the gravy and simmer 10-15 minutes on low.
Serve over hot cooked noodles.