Attempting a 1960s Igloo Meatloaf Recipe 

it makes me happy you guys are supporting Phoebe trying out Vegetarianism. i wanted to at an early age but didn't have my family's support with it.

I love Chloe's little criticism at the end, she is so well spoken and eloquent for a 9 year old.

I've had such an awful day today. Seeing you've uploaded is the first thing to make me smile today. Thank you Barry 🙌🙌🙌

You hit the nail on the head. In the 60's they had to make food fun. There was a huge grocery shopping shift and more people were buying the start of 'convenience foods' where things came out of cans, bottles or boxes, just add water and it was done. A lot less cooking from scratch. Excellent job on the Igloo. The onion granules may have soaked up a lot of the meatloaf liquids as it naturally rehydrated.

Please do more “vintage” recipes! 🥰

Love that Phoebe is now Veggie! Will we see more veggie recipes as a result? She’s growing up so much and becoming a lovely young woman with her own views and opinions. Been so nice seeing your beautiful family grow up over these years!

Another tip, to hold the moisture, add 1 egg for every pound of meat. And add 2tbsp of ketchup for flavor. 🙂

16:30 made me laugh about ketchup and chloe's demand for it

If you're looking for a vegetarian recipe to try - it can also be a part of the Taste the World playlist - I'd recommend trying out Egyptian Koshari. I taught myself how to cook it because my brother lived in Egypt for a few years and talked about it a lot, and it's become a comfort food for me.

Awesome. The mashed potato sculpting part gave me flashbacks to close encounters of the third kind, a husband and father gone bonkers lol.

Barry, you should have added a side dish of either cauliflower cheese or creamed greens ( spinach perhaps), to represent a British garden location for your igloo.

Chloe is such a vivacious little bundle of joy!

I am new to your channel and have had such fun doing a Barathon! Your content is great and so positive and wholesome with a positive comments section. So rare to see now, what treat! Thanks for everything you do!

Nearly all of our instant mashed potatoes here in the States tell you to add both water and milk, and usually butter too. Your sheer excitement and joy at finding this as a novel idea was amazing to watch 😂❤️

We learnt a song in school about the conversion of lb to kg and its "2.2 pounds of jam, weight about a kilo-gram" hope this sticks with you for the 15+ years that it has with me!

I’ve made meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato icing. It went really well!

I was a kid of the 60s lol we used the same but also we used a couple table spoons of mayo and ketchup in the meat to keep it moist then put the mashed potatoes on at the end and browned it with the cheese. Sadly I never got to play with ours lol it was in just a baking pan.

I still make my meatloaf with evap milk, that's how my Grandma taught me. She used tomato sauce instead of ketchup on and in hers but I use pasta sauce. Definitely add eggs.

That looks quite fun, thanks! And, as a kid during the 60s, I suspect my mother would have scoffed at the idea of making this to "entice" her children to eat it. She was a good cook but us kids had basically one choice to make at meal times: eat or not. I am tempted to make this for myself but I would likely change the recipe slightly. For a start, I'd want to use fresh minced onions. And rather more pepper. It did look a bit dry. So to counter that I think and egg in the mix before baking would help. As well as cooking it to temperature rather than to time. I suppose you could make a few black olive penguins to place around it even though that would be geographically incorrect... Still, thanks as ever for sharing your adventures with us!

For molds that you think will stick, line the insides with clear film. Saves on dish clean-up and also gives you some handy tabs to help ease out the mold. Cheers for the episode and have a champion day.

Berry, I can't remember how long I've been here watching your videos. But I find myself going back and rewatching videos while I eat. I can not wait to start making your recipes in my own home with my partner

I love seeing retro recipes, the good and bad ones. One dish frequently used (that's an retro dish) is just 4 ingredient "cranberry fluff" , its requested slot and I could eat it anytime (recipe below) . . . . Canned shredded pineapple Whipped cream or cool whip Canned jellied cranberry sauce Mini marshmallows Mix all together and chill

Oh my god I can't believe you just dumped an entire jar of onion granules in the beef! "It smells oniony" I would think so 🤣

As someone who suffers from terrible anxiety, your videos are very calming.

Got the veggie prep kit recently and its absolutely stonking, its worth the money just for the ease of chopping onions with no tears, thank you so much Barry ☺

Can I just say, that pause was the most thrilling part out of all your videos.

you could up date this by making it the Skywalker homestead on Tatooine from Star Wars. make the igloo but don't put the blockwork markings into the mash. then instead on putting the cheese on the top, melt cheese into a pan big enough to use as a base to put the igloo on when cooled. sorry Barry, I know you haven't a clue about what I have just described. but I am sure Stuart will confirm it's in the movie.

Enjoying these episodes of retro recipients 😂

"The parent making this"...? You mean the MOM making this, we're talking 60's Barry, remember?

Watching you sculpt mashed potatoes just has Close Encounters 🎦 vibes and I'm here for it 💯

Hi guys, I lived through the 60s, ages 8-18, in the US. I never saw one of these igloos. I started cooking myself age 13, but I was using the Joy of Cooking (Irma rombauer) and Julia Child on TV (french cooking). My mom wasn't an adventurous cook. We had the same rotation of dishes. Which is probably why I rebelled hahaha. a meatloaf with no eggs is inevitably going to be dry. Thanks for this stroll down someone else's memory lane. Jim Oaxaca Mexico (retired)

I love chloe! She's such a little character! And phoebe's art is amazing!

I loved today's recipe, you are my inspiration .❤️ I am making simple recipes every day, no one was putting faith in me ... And God rewarded me with my effort. I am very happy with my growth! God Bless everyone 🙏

It does look like it would be alright with gravy, as far as vintage recipes go, this is not the worst one!!

Did Barry never use evaporated milk before? The happiness about it turning back into regular milk with added water was too funny 😅

is it me or your older daughter is growing a bit? Getting to meet your family over the years is a great part of your channel. Kudos to her for being vegeterian, meat is great, but i also like a healty lifestyle.

My grandma makes carrot jelly for Christmas every year and it’s basically grated carrots, pineapple jelly, and pineapple chunks. She was born in the ‘40’s so it definitely reminded me of the jelly salad you pointed out haha

Gelatin salad yes please it's more to do with seeing yours and mrs b's face eating it though 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Finished product is incredible

After her ketchup comment, I think Chloe is a mini British version of Emily Duncan from Epicurious. 🤣🤣

I agree....YOU NEED KETCHUP!! 😋

I grew up in Yukon, Canada we used canned, evaporated milk (or powdered) for everything and still have both in my cupboard.

New Subscriber here and I just wanted to say....I love your videos and your wonderful family. Thanks for the awesome content and the hilarious laughs they provide. Can't wait for your new kitchen!🙂

Just had a terrible and upsetting therapy appointment and this video gives me life. Thank you so much.

Instant minced onion is actually just dehydrated onion bits you get from the spice section.

Given how dry the meat was, I guess maybe bind it with eggs next time? Either that, or add some lard to the mix. Also, Chloe aggressively asserting that we need ketchup is a hell of a mood. Reminds me of the old "you can't eat without it" ads that Heinz used to do.

It's so precious!

Well done!!!!! 👍🍻 and hello to the ladies 👋😊

To be fair Barry. Back in the 60's they didn't use dry ground beef. Not no 95% lean. I think that would make a difference, maybe. I love looking at my mom's old cook books. The food looked so fun and colorful.

I was a kid in the late 60s and we used to have "vappy milk" all the time. I actually preferred it on tinned fruit rather than cream. When I was a student I used to use it in coffee because of the richer taste and i lasted a lot longer in the fridge.

It probably would've been easier to form the block lines in the mash before baking it on, but eh, live and learn. XD

Vintage recipes are fun. I found an older Betty Crocker cookbook and been trying some recipes. This was a good video. Just thinking if 90 min was too long in the oven might contribute to the dryness. Thank you Barry.

My mom made this a couple of times in the late 60s. Yup it was a thing. Thank the stars no gelatin salad. Lol.

Mexican Cuisine has something called moly which is a chocolate sauce that you use with either beef chicken or pork in tacos

I’ve been waiting for another old recipe

i asked my mother for evaporated milk, she went in the kitchen and when she came back she gave me an empty glass, i asked where the milk was, she said it's evaporated

Hello from the past.... that made me smile. Do you think if you made all the bricks before cooking it it would be easier? I think you might need gravy on the side. You sure did an AWESOME job.

I was a kid in the 60s. That would have been a real treat!

My first thought upon seeing the melted cheese on top: Yellow is entirely the wrong color to use here. Don't eat the yellow snow!

What a lovely family!

Looks real good. Reminds me of 1970's school dinners where they got minced beef and a bit of chopped onion. Spread it out on a baking tray, baked it and served it like cake, by the slice. Unlike your efforts this was tasteless and watery, no salt, no gravy, no stock, no chopped veg and the mash potato was lumpy and watery. That needed ketchup as well.

No Barry, "Instant Mince Onion" is not Onion Granules. They are dehydrated flakes of onion that you rehydrate. That's what they put in McDonalds burgers. EDIT: I'm not sure how many times you'll keep making this mistake but for the love of food, please grease/flour your bowls/dishs/pans/utensils. You make things so much harder for yourself.

Looks fab perhaps grating an onion would have been better than the dried onion granules...it sounds like it might have been an over seas recipe as the measurements were in cups...and the *minced garlic* is what they call grated onion? Brilliant job I'd deffo put some Lego figure outside the igloo would look fab on the table ...keep up the good work. And you cute assistant did a marvelous job. Your girls do you and your wife proud !!

To be fair that looks like a pretty good way to make mashed potatoes if nothing else. Got a big box of that stuff. I might actually try that part of the recipe. Phoebe might eat the mashed potatoes it if you made it with cream of coconut so that you're not using real milk. Coconut oil blended with a tablespoon of olive oil would make a decent butter substitute. Throw some nice herbs in it and it would be good. Cheese on the side for the rest of the family. Also check into nutritional yeast for her to use as a cheese substitute.

Barry, hey I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, I'm not gonna give up my age completely. I remember that recipe and I remember it sucked, and because of the Igloo meatloaf, I hate meatloaf and anything else that forms a brick of ground beef or chicken mince, I'll eat hamburgers and cheeseburgers most usually or better than that smash burgers. And that would be a recipe or food I'd like to see you do, is smash burgers with cheese and fries or grated potato wedges w/ salt and pepper. They're as you would call it stonkin burgers with little brown edges and potato wedges with salt and pepper are the bomb 💣 if you ask me . Don't put the pepper in beforehand or they'll burn but fresh grated pepper and Sea or Kosher salt Dang it !!! So good, give it a shot I think you'll love it.

Looks good thanks for sharing

Would have been a perfect opportunity to make those little olive penguin appetizers.

Chloe is 100% right! Some ketchup and/or tomato sauce or paste would make this into a killer meatloaf type recipe which would've made it so much more moist and tasty. Straight up cooking meat with none of that in it is too plain jane. She's very smart :P

Hi Barry and crew, was gonna drop a suggestion here. If you're curious to try some American Southern food from recipes going back to the Depression Era, get the book "Best Cook in the World - Meals From My Momma's Southern Table" by Rick Bragg. Meals had to be made cheaply back then but the ingredients they used to impart flavor were phenomenal. (Yes, there is an opossum recipe in there but you can skip that!)

Love the quidditch jumper! Wrong house, but still awesome.

Do you not have a meat thermometer to check when the loaf is done? Also, I'd have cooked the meat in the bowl so all those juices stay in.

Add salsa when making meatloaf. It helps keep it moist

Historic recipe options: - There's a retro potato chocolate cake doing the rounds on tiktok - The Fraunces Tavern Carrot Tea Cake was supposedly eaten by Washington. - Not sure if anyone's translated a recipe from Dutch for it, but poffert is pretty retro, and it feels similar to an English-style steamed pudding. - English Heritage has a banging Victorian era cookbook they brought out with modern instructions. They also have typed out the original manuscript they got all the recipes from, which includes instructions on how to roast a swan or candy some lettuce. - Dr. Oetker used to make school cookbooks and they have exact reprints of it available... in German. Recipes are sound. The version I have, for the late 40s, early 50s, tells me not to dream of owning a refrigerator any time soon. - Archive dot org has a collection of 11,396 freely available, digitized cookbooks, starting from the sixteenth century. Just type 'details/cbk' after the URL.

6:00 would it not be easier just to peel a turtle? 🐢 Medium rare igloo, I'm remembering that for when I next need to change a password! 😂

I love Mrs B's reaction to gelatin salad.

I would think that the small ball of meat would be dry. It was in the oven for 90 minutes just like the larger ball. But i like the look of the igloo. Good job Barry. I alway like seeing the family.

Barry Lewis is BBC radio Essex's weather man lol !!

Find someone who loves you as much as that lil girl loves ketchup.

A bit of pork mince replacing part of the beef mince helps it to be less dry.

Great vid as always :D I've not gone all the way down your comments (and I'm not a patreon (sorry) so idk if anyone commented there) - 2 Ibs is around 900g, not 1.5kg which is what probably led to the potato being thin and it being super dry - And I agree, everything is better with ketchup

Chole and phoebe are adorable

I kind of want an "Oh my god Becky" hat X'D

Loads of respect for Phoebe being vegetarian

My son made a meatloaf-turkey for Thanksgiving. He sure knows his mom.

You can dip it in gravy (or something else) to add to the taste, of the dryness.

American cheddar is dyed neon orange, which is why it looks like red Leicester

The kid is right! YOU DO NEED KETCHUP! YOU NEED IT! XD

1. Igloos are from the Arctic, not Antarctica. 2. To solve the dryness, you might make a milk gravy. 3. Make an island of mash and set the igloo on top and then fill the tray with the gravy to make it look like an icy sea. Carve vegetables into sea lions, polar bears, people, whales, etc . (not any penguins they are from Antarctica) to populate a diarama. When serving a slice just spoon gravy over the slice. A lot of work, but could be fun.😅

People didn't use thermometers as much then, but it would have been better cooked to a safe temperature rather than by time. Dried minced onions aren't onion powder. Most meatloaf these days isn't made with evaporated milk (or milk at all that I've seen) but with eggs. Meatloaf is a contentious dish here in the States. Everyone's mother has the best recipe. It seems kids always want ketchup with it. Kids and my 46 year old husband, lol.

Old Inuit proverb "Never eat yellow snow"😂

I havent even started the video properly and yet, I am happy to say... I HAVE THAT SAME GRYFFINDOR HOODIE!!

modernise it by adding a layer of streaky bacon around the meat, it will keep the meatloaf moist

Its strange seeing a Anchor Hocking measuring cup in the UK. I live in Lancaster, Ohio where the factory is located.

I wonder how molding the dome of the igloo over an onion and cooking for less time would work moisture-wise? Not a chef by any means, but that idea popped into my head. 🤷‍♀️

I really hope YOUR apparel merch is of better quality than what was used in the past. I love you to bits, and I love the Seal shirt, but the tee it was printed on was HORRENDOUS! I kept it though, because I wanted to keep Phoebe funded :)

The little one speaks with wisdom beyond her years. Everything was covered in ketchup in the sixties. Also Inuit are found in the Arctic the place with bears.

Even when I won't make the recipe I always watch cause your videos are always fun :) and max bonus when your family participate, they're an absolute treasure and joy! (I'm not having a good day - this here really lifted my spirits). :)

Meatloaf sandwiches are great

Love the turtle dude

It would be cool if you bring this up to date and make it better. If you added fatty pork to the beef that would add moisture