Ives Minced Meat Cake

No matter what you call meat loaf, it remains one of the country's favorite meals. Stretch your protein budget while comforting your family. This versatile recipe is dedicated to LGBT Hero George Cecil Ives. Read about this early leader of homosexual rights in a short story after the recipe. It can give you a wonderful conversation starter!

Meatloaf was mentioned in Roman cookbooks as early as the 5th century. In the US, it was a mainstay during the depression years and brings back early childhood memories.

Meatloaf:

2 lbs ground beef

¾ C breadcrumbs(Panko breadcrumbs are larger than the plain, they make the meatloaf softer.)

¼ C non fat half & half

½ C grated carrots

½ cup diced tomatoes well drained

½ tsp each: salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder

1 egg

½ cup ketchup or BBQ sauce

Directions:

preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line a 9x12 baking pan with foil and spray.

In a large bowl mix the ground beef with the seasonings and breadcrumbs. Add the half & half. Using your hands or a short wooden spoon mix in the half & half until blended. Cover and let set on counter for 5-10 minutes.

Peel and grate the carrots. Drain a can of diced tomatoes completely. When the mixture has set, stir in the carrots and tomatoes.

• For mess-free preparation, mix and shape the meatloaf ingredients in a large plastic bag. Just squeeze bag to mix all ingredients until well blended. Then, remove the meat mixture from the bag before shaping into loaf and baking as directed.

There really is one most important thing to remember if you want to make perfect meatloaf: Don’t overwork the mix!

Form the meat into a loaf in the baking pan, leaving a couple of inches on either side. This lets the meat drain and not “stew” in the grease as it does in a loaf pan.

Beat the egg into the ketchup or BBQ sauce and brush this all over the loaf to create a nice crust.

Bake for an hour to 1:15 minutes Test with a meat thermometer,

it must read at least 160 degrees.

Then remove from oven and let rest for 10 minutes! This lets the juices redistribute and gives you a better chance of it holding together. If you start to slice when right from the oven, meatloaf can easily crack and crumble.

While it still tastes OK it is preferable to serve as a nice thick slice. You will probably get a bit of crumbling just on the edges of the first couple of slices, this is normal and indicative of the tenderness of the meatloaf (zero crumble indicates firm packed harder meatloaf which isn't as enjoyable!).

This allows perfect time to microwave a green vegetable or two as you prefer.

This recipe produces lots of meatloaf. Freeze sliced left overs in resealable freezer-weight plastic bags up to 3 months. When ready to serve, remove the desired number of slices from the bag and reheat in the microwave until heated through (to an internal temperature of 160°F for food safety). If you cube it before freezing, It can be added to just about any casserole! You can even crumble it up for stir fried rice, beefaroni, or enrich some macaroni and cheese!

Be a good neighbor and take some to an elderly friend, be sure and include some vegetables as many seniors tend to overlook them in their diet.

• For a whimsical idea, press the meatloaf mixture into muffin pan cups sprayed with cooking spray before baking. As a special extra, remove the baked meatloaves from the muffin cups, then serve topped with hot prepared mashed potatoes and hot cooked peas to resemble cupcakes topped with sprinkles!

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George Cecil Ives

                             

Born in 1867, George Cecil Ives was an English poet, writer, penal reformer and early homosexual law reform campaigner.

Ives was educated at home in Hampshire UK and at Magdalene College of Cambridge.

While there he started to amass 45 volumes of scrapbooks (between 1892 and 1949). These scrapbooks consist of clippings on topics such as theories of crime and punishment, transvestism, psychology of gender, homosexuality, and letters he wrote to newspapers.

Throughout his life, Ives battled for what he referred to as “The Cause”, to get pro-homosexuality laws passed. It was not until seventeen years after his death, that same-sex sexual activities became legal in England. He was one of the earliest proponents.

Ives was also a well known author. While he wrote verses and fiction from time to time, he is remembered mostly for his monographs, lectures, correspondences, and meticulously detailed diaries that he maintained for over six decades. These covered topics from sex psychology to prison reform to abortion and were published as anthologies at various points of his lifetime.

His works include:

Books of Verse:

• Book of Chains (1897)
• Eros' Throne (1900)

Non-fiction:

• Penal Methods in the Middle Ages (1910)
• The Treatment of Crime (1912)
• A History of Penal Methods: Criminals, Witches, Lunatics (1914)
• The Sexes, Structure, & "Extra-organic" Habits of certain Animals (1918)
• The Continued Extension of the Criminal Law (1922)
• English Prisons Today (1922) (Prefaced by G.B. Shaw)
• Graeco-Roman View of Youth (1926)
• Obstacles to Human Progress (1939)

Ives met Oscar Wilde at the Authors' Club in London in 1892. Ives was already working for the end of the oppression of homosexuals. He hoped that Wilde would join "the Cause", but was disappointed. In 1893, Lord Alfred Douglas, with whom he had a brief affair, introduced Ives to several Oxford poets whom Ives also tried to recruit.

By 1897, Ives created and founded the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society for homosexuals which was named after the location of the battle where the Sacred Band of Thebes was finally annihilated in 338 BC.

The same year, Ives visited Edward Carpenter at Millthorpe. This marked the beginning of their relationship.

In 1914, Ives, together with Edward Carpenter, Magnus Hirschfeld, Laurence Housman and others, founded the British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology. He also kept in touch with other progressive psychologists such as Havelock Ellis and Professor Cesare Lombroso.

They presented topics in lectures and publications included such as the promotion of the scientific study of sex and a more rational attitude towards sexual conduct; problems and questions connected with sexual psychology (from medical, juridical, and sociological aspects), birth control, abortion, sterilization, venereal diseases, and all aspects of prostitution.

In 1931, the organization became the British Sexological Society. Ives was the archivist for the Society whose papers are now held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Oscar Wilde, who had taken England by storm with The Picture of Dorian Gray and had been dabbling with theater. Lady Windermere’s Fan was staged earlier that year.

 England’s most iconic victim of homophobia met one of the earliest gay reformers in the country for the first time. Not only were homosexual practices illegal, they were – to put it very, very mildly – not looked upon very kindly.

 The two men were poles apart. Wilde was expansive and flamboyant in his prose. Ives, poet, writer and penal reformer, was mainly a chronicler, a rigorous curator of facts; he was more meticulous than suave. And their respective genres reflected the personalities of two men as well.

In Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations, John Stokes described Wilde and Ives as “unlikely allies by virtue of temperament alone.”

Two much-publicized lawsuits later, Wilde was sentenced to prison for two years of hard labor for “gross indecency” in 1895.

Ives founded the Order of Chaeronea – the first known society for homosexuals – in 1897, the same year when Wilde completed his two-year sentence and left for France, never to return.

When Wilde passed away in 1900, Ives mourned his death with a poem in Reynolds’ Newspaper and at least two diary entries. In one of these he referred to Wilde as “victim and martyr”.

 The name was inspired by the Battle of Chaeronea (338 BC), where the Sacred Band of Thebes were routed by Phillip II of Macedon and his son Alexander . The Band was composed of a hundred and fifty pairs of male lovers.

Ives had met Walt Whitman when he toured America in 1882. “I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips,” he later admitted.

At his death in 1950, George Ives left a large archive covering his life and work between 1874 and 1949.

His collected works and diaries offer the historian a treasure trove of gay life in Victorian England.

Their are 122 volumes of diaries from the age of nineteen until about six months before his death at age eighty-two. Most of the diaries have daily entries for the period from 20 December 1886 to 16 November 1949.

The view Ives provides in his diary of the life of an upper-middle class English homosexual from the end of the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century is of particular interest for understanding the homosexual movement in England during this time.

The sheer bulk of his legacy – innumerable scrapbooks, endless manuscripts, and a gargantuan diary (122 volumes, over three million words), asserts an unshakable confidence that sooner or later his day would come.

Ives has been described as “a humanitarian who not only looked forward to a future when homosexuals would be free to live as they wished but, more than that, believed that they would be able to instruct the rest of society by their tolerance and moral concern.”

A perhaps forgotten hero who laid the foundation for so many of us.