Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2009

I use store bought meatballs (Rosina Italian Style meatballs are the best). I added the mustard seed and Worcestershire sauce to the sauce. Like others have said, play around with the recipe to suit your taste. I also cooked them longer than the recipe said. Be careful not to overcook. I have had several people ask for the recipe. It's so easy.

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acchaney

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Reviewed: Dec. 24, 2008

my grandmother used to make these meatballs. I loved them as a child and have made them over the years for various occasions. I lost the recipe & was very happy to find it here. Thanks!

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samantha

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Reviewed: Sep. 24, 2008

This is a very good recipe that I have made countless times. People always ask for the recipe (which I now know by heart) and I prefer this taste over the traditional "grape jelly" cocktail sauce.

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Ashli Rae

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Reviewed: Nov. 28, 2007

I chose this recipe because it was so simple! The classic brown sugar and ketchup mix never goes wrong! :) I cheated and got frozen meatballs from Costco because I was short on time and heated them up in my crock pot...Was a big hit at the party!

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Amy

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Reviewed: Jul. 16, 2007

Good except I recommend doubling the recipe as it is small, and 2 pkg's of onion soup mix is plenty even when doubled.

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ASHLEYBEGOOD

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Living In: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

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Reviewed: May 6, 2007

This IS an great recipe as is ~ but I only use 1 pkg dry onion soup mix. BUT, lately, making the meatballs has become a tad time-consuming even though I love to entertain. I now cheat: I buy the meatballs, use the ketchup & brown sugar per the recipe, but since it is a little sweet, I throw in 1/4c mustard in to counter the sweet. Very good recipe both from scratch and modified. Thanks for the posting!

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DREGINEK

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Reviewed: Jan. 16, 2007

it was tasty, easy to make, but VERY salty, and i did not add any salt at all. other than that its great!

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TeaKake

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Reviewed: Dec. 28, 2006

I thought that these tasted like regular cocktail meatballs. They were good, but this is not an "out of this world" recipe. I took the advice of another reviewer and doubled the sauce.

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Ker

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Living In: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Reviewed: May 12, 2006

These have such a good texture and flavor. A lot better then the frozen meatballs you can buy.

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Jody

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Living In: Clinton, Indiana, USA

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Reviewed: Jun. 14, 2005

I wasn't that impressed with these, they were ok.....not as good as I was expecting. Too sweet and sugary for my taste (between the high fructose corn syrup in the ketchup and the brown sugar) Probably won't make these again.

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MITSUELIZABETH

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Reviewed: Jun. 11, 2005

I just don't know where I went wrong with this recipe. It turned out WAY too sweet for my taste and I could swear that I'd tasted the ketchup. Others in the house said that they were good but not great like the reviewers noted. Might be worth trying again w/some minor tweaking.

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Reviewed: Jan. 14, 2005

I made this as an appetizer on Christmas Eve. Everyone really liked them! I kept asking for feedback once my guests tried them and they all said they were pretty good. They weren't totally gone, but I think that is because I had about four other appetizers out as well. Will do again. I did change the recipe a bit, however. I added 1 cup bread crumbs, and added 2 1/2 pds of ground beef (as oppose to 1 - read the reviews before I made them and I noticed a lot of the responses was that it was too saucy so I fixed that by adding more beef).

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SNOOKEMS

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Reviewed: Nov. 15, 2004

I adjusted this recipe a little. I used the meat recipe as it is shown but I didn't use the sauce suggested, I used a bottle to Diana's BBQ sauce and I put the sauce with 1 cup of water into a pressure cooker as I don't have a slow cooker, 15 minutes in there and they were a hit at my party, 9 people took your recipe! I will make these every chance I get as they make ME look good! Thanks so much for this recipe.

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MISSCANADA

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Home Town: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Living In: Metcalfe, Ontario, Canada

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Reviewed: Sep. 23, 2004

this is so simple everyone raved!!! instead of making meatballs purchased from costco a bag of small meatballs.

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Reviewed: Jan. 4, 2004

These did not impress me.

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Reviewed: Dec. 1, 2003

I don't eat beef but judging by my friends' reaction, they get 5*****! Many compliments and I admit the smell of the sauce slow cooking in the CrockPot was delicious to me! I used slightly over 1lb. of beef and had no problems with the balls being too 'wet' but also sprinkled some seasoned breadcrumbs anyway. Half BBQ sauce/half Ketchup for the sauce. I broiled for 10 min then put in CrockPot for 3 hrs --> were slightly overdone this way though. A hit appetizer and easy!

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EBARHA

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Reviewed: Feb. 14, 2003

The meat mixture was too soupy...I wonder if there are supposed to be breadcrumbs or cracker crumbs or something. I added cracker crumbs and it worked well. I only used half the amount of onion soup mix, and it was plenty! Tasty, but not fabulous.

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BREICHOW

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Reviewed: Jan. 1, 2003

What a simple recipe...and very tasty sauce! The second time I made this, I didn't have time to make the meatballs, so I used cocktail weiners. I also doubled the ketchup and brown sugar, except instead of double the ketchup, I added 1/2 ketchup and 1/2 KC Masterpeice Honey Smoke BBQ sauce. I left it in the slow cooker on low for about 6 hours so that the weiners and sauce really got to cook together. It was such a hit that I printed copies of the recipe and handed them out to over a dozen guests who asked for it!! The wonderful thing about this recipe is that the base recipe is so simple, that "playing around", being creative, and really experimenting with different ingrediants will make everyone happy who tries this recipe. With a little imagination, the possibilities of this recipe are endless! Thanks for sharing this recipe!!

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MISSMARISA

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Home Town: Milton, Vermont, USA

Living In: Wantage Township, New Jersey, USA

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Reviewed: Nov. 11, 2002

Easy and excellent. Better than any other recipe I have tried for these.

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Reviewed: Nov. 11, 2002

It does need something to hold the meatballs together...I find cooking them in the oven a couple extra minutes, maybe 5, works well. Very easy to make and the sauce is a simple crowd pleaser.

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