Dutch loaf (also called old-fashioned loaf, spiced luncheon loaf, and spiced lunch meat) is a
luncheon meat
Lunch meats—also known as cold cuts, luncheon meats, cooked meats, sliced meats, cold meats, sandwich meats, delicatessens, and deli meats—are precooked or cured meats that are sliced and served cold or hot. They are typically served in ...
made from coarse-ground lean pork and beef mixed or coated with spices, formed into a loaf shape and then
smoked
Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food, particularly meat, fish and tea, by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.
In Europe, alder is the traditional smoking wood, but ...
over a
hardwood
Hardwood is wood from Flowering plant, angiosperm trees. These are usually found in broad-leaved temperate and tropical forests. In temperate and boreal ecosystem, boreal latitudes they are mostly deciduous, but in tropics and subtropics mostl ...
fire. It is a popular sandwich filler in America.} Most major deli-meat companies make their own variation.
The name "Dutch loaf" is probably derived from "Pennsylvania Dutch meatloaf", a similar dish from rural
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
introduced by
German immigrants. However, the product is known by different names in various parts of the United States because different makers named it what they wished.
See also
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List of smoked foods
This is a list of smoked foods. Smoking (cooking), Smoking is the process of seasoning, flavoring, cooking, or food preservation, preserving food by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood. Foods have been smoke ...
References
Lunch meat
Cuisine of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Smoked meat
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