Cocktail Meatballs

This is the best cocktail meatball I've ever had. We didn't have chili sauce, but I found Quick Chili Sauce and made it homemade. Really a surprising but wonderful concoction of ingredients--sweet and spicy. We used blackberry jelly instead of grape and baked the meatballs in the oven at 350 for 20 minutes or so instead of cooking in shortening. We also put it all in the crockpot and watched them disappear. Recipe courtesy of Golden Heritage Cookbook fiftieth Anniversary/The Officers' Wives' Club of Fort Benning, Georgia (Mrs. Edward G. Bradshaw (Mackie).

• Ready In: 45 mins
• Serves: 8-10

Ingredients

• Meatballs

• 2  lbs ground beef
• 1  cup  dry breadcrumbs
• 2⁄3 cup  minced onion
• 1⁄2 cup milk
• 2  eggs
• 2  tablespoons parsley, snipped
• 2  teaspoons salt
• 1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
• 1  teaspoon Worcestershire sauce

• Cook in

• 1⁄2 cup shortening

• Sauce

• 12  ounces chili sauce
• 10  ounces  grape jelly

Directions

1. Mix all meatball ingredients and gently shape into 1 1/2 inch balls.
2. Melt shortening in large skillet and brown meatballs.
3. Remove meatballs from skillet and pour off fat.
4. Heat chili sauce and jelly in skillet, stirring constantly until jelly is melted.
5. Add meatballs and stir until thoroughly coated.
6. Simmer, uncovered, 30 minutes.
7. Serve in chafing dish.