Cashier Memorial Meatballs & Beans

Throughout history brave people have gone to fight wars while hiding who they were. Often we never know. We never know at what cost they incurred to protect the society who shunned them. We dedicate this meal to one such hero.

A high protein – low fat meal loaded with flavor is just the thing for this weather. Meatballs, white beans and tomatoes together right out of your pantry.

Ingredients

• 1 Tsp olive oil
• 1 lb ground beef (or store bought beef meatballs)
• 1 egg
• ¼ cup milk
• ½ cup breadcrumbs
• ½ tsp garlic powder
• ½ tsp salt + ½ tsp pepper
• ½ yellow onion, chopped
• 1 can (28 ounces) diced tomatoes (un-drained)
• 1 can (15 ounces) cannellini beans, drained
• 1 tsp Italian Seasonings
• ½ package of bow tie pasta
• Grated cheese (optional)
  

Directions

Do your cutting: chop the onion.
In a large bowl mix: ground beef, egg, breadcrumbs, garlic powder, Italian seasonings, salty & pepper, and milk. Mix thoroughly with short wooden spoon. Let sit for 10 minutes. 
 
Start the bow tie pasta according to package (boil for 15 minutes) and
Drain.
Scoop meat into 1½ inch balls with a small scoop and shape with wet fingers.

Heat oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. Add meatballs (about half at a time so they don't bunch together). Let them cook for about 4 – 5 minutes, (you know when to roll them over when they release easily from the pan). 

 

Cook on the other side about the same amount of time and remove to a paper towel lined dish. Follow with the second batch the same way.

Add onions to the dutch oven and drain the tomatoes (fluid only) on to them. The liquid will help release any brown bits on the bottom as you scrape them with a spatula. Then dump the tomatoes and white beans into the pot. 

 

Return the meatballs, cover and reduce the heat to low.

Let them simmer – tiny bubbles appearing – for 15 minutes.

Serve over the bow tie pasta with a green vegetable on the side!

Serve with grated cheese, if desired.

Servings Per Recipe: 8
Per Serving: 37 mg chol., 5 g sat. fat, 65 g carb., 13 g Fat, total, 8 g fiber, 483, 25 g pro., 545 mg sodium


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Albert D. J. Cashier

 

Albert D. J. Cashier (December 25, 1843 – October 10, 1915), born Jennie Irene Hodgers, was an Irish-born immigrant who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Cashier adopted the identity of a man before enlisting, and maintained it for most of the remainder of his life. He became famous as one of a number of soldiers who served as men during the Civil War. He kept a consistent and long-term commitment to his male identity. Even today many just do not understand the term!

He was born in Ireland around the year 1843 and was the child of Sallie and Patrick Hodgers. His own later accounts of how he moved to the United States and why he enlisted were taken when he was elderly and disoriented, and was also typically evasive about his earlier life; therefore, these narratives are contradictory.

Typically, he was said to have been dressed in boy's clothing by his stepfather in order to find work. Even before the advent of the war, Hodgers adopted the identity of Albert Cashier to work. By 1862, he had traveled as a stowaway to Illinois and was living in Belvidere.

That year he enlisted in the 95th Illinois Infantry for a three-year term using the name "Albert Cashier" and was assigned to Company G. A company catalog lists Cashier as nineteen years old upon enlistment, “a farmer from New York City, 5 feet 3 inches tall, blue-eyed, and of a fair complexion.”

The regiment was part of the Army of the Tennessee under Ulysses S. Grant and fought in approximately forty battles, including the siege at Vicksburg. He was captured there while performing reconnaissance. Cashier managed to escape, however, and make his way back to the regiment.

The regiment was also present at the Red River Campaign and Guntown, Mississippi, where they suffered heavy casualties. Throughout the war, the regiment traveled a total of about 9,000 miles during its term. Other soldiers thought that Cashier was small and preferred to be alone, which was not uncommon for soldiers. Cashier fought with the regiment through the war until August 17, 1865, when all the soldiers were mustered out. Cashier was honorably discharged on August 17, 1865.

After the war, Cashier settled in Saunemin, Illinois, in 1869, where he worked as a farmhand as well as performing odd jobs around the town.

His employer there, Joshua Chesebro, built a one-room house for Cashier. For over forty years, he lived in Saunemin and was a church janitor, cemetery worker, and street lamplighter. Because he lived as a man, he was able to vote in elections and later claimed a veteran's pension under the name Albert Cashier.

In 1911, Cashier was hit by a car that broke his leg. A physician discovered his secret in the hospital, but did not disclose the information. On May 5, 1911, because he was no longer able to work, Cashier was moved to the Soldiers and Sailors home in Quincy, Illinois. During this stay, he was visited by many of his fellow soldiers from Ninety-fifth Regiment. He lived there until her mental state deteriorated and she was moved to the Watertown State Hospital for the Insane in March 1914. Attendants at the Watertown State Hospital discovered that he was biologically a female when giving him a bath, at which point he was made to wear women's clothes again after fifty years.

Death and legacy

Albert Cashier died on October 10, 1915. He was buried in the uniform he had kept intact all those years and his tombstone was inscribed "Albert D. J. Cashier, Co. G, 95 Ill. Inf."

Cashier was given an official Grand Army of the Republic funerary service, and was buried with full military honors. In the 1970s, a second tombstone, inscribed with both of her names, was placed beside the first.

Also Known As Albert D. J. Cashier: The Jennie Hodgers Story is a biography written by veteran Lon P. Dawson, who lived at the Illinois Veterans Home where Cashier once lived. The novel My Last Skirt, by Lynda Durrant, is based on his life. Cashier's house has been restored in Saunemin.

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