THIS recipe makes about 35 meatballs, and is taken from Ikea's Real Swedish Food Book, available for sale at Ikea store's Food Market at $17.Buy the meatball cream sauce and lingonberry jam from Ikea's Food Market at $2per 40g and $5 per 400g respectively. You can buy frozen meatballs there at$17.50 per kg.

Ingredients
250g minced beef
250g minced pork
1 egg
2 to 3 deci-litre cream and water (or milk and water)
21/2 Tbs onions, finely chopped
1/2 deci-litre unsweetened rusk flour
2 cold, boiled potatoes (about 60g each)
4 to 5 Tbs butter, margarine or oil
Salt and pepper to taste

Method

1. Mash the potatoes and moisten the rusk flour with a little water in separate containers.

2. Heat the onions till golden with a few tablespoons of lightly browned butter.

3. Mix and knead all the ingredients into a smooth paste.

4. Shape the paste into balls roughly the size of 50-cent coins. Pan-fry the meatballs slowly in plenty of butter till they turn a nice brown colour.