Swedish Meatballs (From a Swede!)

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon minced onion
• 0.33 cups fine dry bread crumbs
• 0.5 cups water
• 0.5 cups half-and-half
• 0.75 pounds ground beef
• 0.25 pounds ground pork
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 0.25 teaspoons ground white pepper
• 0.33 teaspoons white sugar
• 3 tablespoons butter

Instructions

1. 1

   Melt 1 tablespoon butter in a frying pan over low heat; cook and stir onion in melted butter until lightly browned, 5 to 8 minutes.

2. 2

   Mix bread crumbs, water, and half-and-half in a large bowl; let stand for about 2 minutes. Stir cooked onion, ground beef, ground pork, salt, white pepper, and sugar into bread crumb mixture until thoroughly mixed. Shape mixture into about 48 very small meatballs.

3. 3

   Melt 3 tablespoons butter in a skillet; add meatballs. Brown slowly, allowing about 25 minutes, until meatballs are fully cooked in the middle and no longer pink. Shake pan occasionally to cook evenly.