Meat Loaf with Brown Sugar Glaze

Meat loaf

Brown Sugar-Ketchup glaze
1/2 C. Ketchup or chili sauce
4 T. Brown sugar
4 t. cider or white vinegar

2 t. oil
1 med. Onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 Eggs
1.2 t Thyme
1 t. salt
½ t. Black pepper
2 t. Dijon mustard
2 t. Worcestershire sauce
¼ t. hot pepper sauce
½ C. plain yogurt or milk
2 # Ground meat (1# beef and
or pork or lamb or veal)
2/3 C. Saltine crackers,crushed (about 16), or quick oatmeal, or
1-1/3 cups fresh bread crumbs
1/3 C. minced fresh parsley leaves

For the glaze: Mix all ingredients in small sauce pan and simmer until slightly thickened; set aside.
For the meat loaf; Heat oven to 350 degrees. Heat oil in med. Skillet. Add
Onion and garlic; saute` until softened, about 5 min. Set aside to cool while
preparing remaining ingredients. Mix eggs with thyme, salt, pepper, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, pepper sauce, and yogurt, or whole milk. Add egg mixture to meat in large bowl along with crackers, parsley, and cooked onion and garlic, Mix with fork until evenly blended and meat mixture does not stick to bowl. (If mixture sticks, add additional milk or yogurt, a couple T. at a time until mix no longer sticks.) Turn meat mixture into meat loat pan with perforated bottom, fitted with drip pan or form on broiling pan into a loaf shape. It using a perforated loaf pan, use a fork to pull the mixture away from the pan sides. (so glaze can go down sides of pan. Brush with ¼ t. glaze. Bake until glaze is set, about 45 min. Top with another ¼ of glaze; continue to bake until second coat has set and loaf registers 160 degrees, about 15 min. longer. Cool at least 20 min. Serve meat loaf with extra glaze passed separately.