_Topping_
1 tablespoon butter _or_ margarine
2 tablespoons GRANDMA’S MOLASSES
1 tablespoon sugar
3 slices pineapple
3 maraschino cherries
_Ham Loaf_
2½ cups (1 lb.) cooked, ground ham
2 cups (1 lb.) uncooked, ground pork
1 cup crushed corn flakes
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon dry mustard
2 eggs, beaten
¼ cup milk
Heat oven to 350° F. (moderate). Melt butter or margarine in 4x9x3-inch
loaf pan, measured across bottom. Stir in molasses and sugar; spread
uniformly over bottom of pan. Arrange pineapple and cherries over
molasses-butter mixture. Mix all ingredients for ham loaf in order
given. Spread mixture in pan over pineapple; press down. Bake 1 hour.
Turn out on hot platter with pineapple and cherries on top.
YIELD: 16 slices, ½ inch thick.