Christmas Morning Sausage Ring

Instead of 'meatloaf', this is a 'sausage loaf' baked in a ring mold and presented on a serving platter with fluffy scrambled eggs piled in the center.

Recipe Ingredients:

2 pounds bulk sausage
1 1/2 cups crushed saltine crackers
2 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/4 cup chopped peeled onion
1 cup chopped, cored, peeled apple
6 large eggs
Salt and pepper to taste

Cooking Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
2. In a bowl, combine sausage, crackers, eggs, milk, onion and apple; mix well. Pat into a greased 6-cup ring mold. Unmold sausage mixture from the pan onto a baking sheet. Bake 1 hour.
3. Scramble the eggs in a skillet, season to taste with salt and pepper and spoon into the center of cooked sausage ring.
4. The sausage mixture can be assembled the night before and refrigerated in the mold. In the morning just unmold sausage mixture and cook as directed.

Makes 8 servings.