Health

Basically, it's cooked steel cut oats, ground meat, onions, black pepper, and any herbs or spices one cares to add. My grandmother formed hers in tin cans, but since cans can't be opened at the bottom any more (boo, hiss), loaf pans will work just as well. Once cooled, it cn be sliced and fried in a very small amount of oil or grease, iwth or without a fried egg on top.

It's a little like haggis without the gastric component. It's remarkably good for how simple it can be. If you can't say the "o" with an umlaut, you can get away with pronouncing it "GUT-ah." You can find it on diner menus in Ohio, Indiana and part of Illinois, wherever people from the Franco-German border settled.