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Beef Meatloaf

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Classic Meat Loaf
Book: Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931)

crumb: baked beef loaf with tomato glaze

Joy of Cooking includes “Classic Meat Loaf”. Irma S. Rombauer, Marion Rombauer Becker and Ethan Becker wrote it (1997 All New edition). This book is the big American home cookbook. It covers baking, roasting, canning and everyday family meals across a century of editions.

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Popular internet meatloaf mixes ground beef with onion soup mix, eggs, panko and ketchup. It bakes the loaf under a tomato soup glaze. The ancestor is Joy's classic meat loaf of beef, crumbs, egg and onion with a ketchup-style topping. Both build the dish the same way. The packaged soup mix and canned soup are later shortcuts.

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Beef Meatloaf
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Classic Meat Loaf
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Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931)
Differences

Popular internet meatloaf mixes ground beef with onion soup mix, eggs, panko and ketchup. It bakes the loaf under a tomato soup glaze. The ancestor is Joy's classic meat loaf of beef, crumbs, egg and onion with a ketchup-style topping. Both build the dish the same way. The packaged soup mix and canned soup are later shortcuts.

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Online sources
Club Foody · Beef Meatloaf (https://clubfoody.com/cf-recipes/beef-meatloaf/)
Simply Recipes · Classic Meatloaf (https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/classic_meatloaf/)
Allrecipes · Easy Meatloaf (https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/16354/easy-meatloaf/)
X · @clubfoody1 (https://x.com/clubfoody1/status/2102085985828003933)
web writeups (https://www.google.com/search?q=beef+meatloaf+recipe)
Date
Sep 2026
Source: what this book is
Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931).
This book is the big American home cookbook. It covers baking, roasting, canning and everyday family meals across a century of editions. This site cites three editions. One is the classic 1975 Rombauer–Becker text (Plume 1997 printing). The others are the 1997 All New edition and the 2006 75th-anniversary edition. Each dish names its edition.

Reference: Joy of Cooking by Irma S. Rombauer (1931). Publisher: Scribner, 2019 edition, hardcover, ISBN 978-1501169717.