Ham And Noodle Casserole

Ingredients

• 8 oz uncooked wide egg noodles
• 14 c margarine or butter
• 1 chopped medium onion
• 2 eggs beaten
• 12 c dairy sour cream
• 14 tsp salt
• 14 tsp pepper
• 12 tsp caraway seed optional
• 14 c dry bread crumbs
• paprika
• 2 c diced fully cooked smoked ham about 12 lb

Directions

1. Drop noodles into 6 cups rapidly boiling water heat to rapid boil
2. Cook
3. stirring constantly 3 minutes cover and remove from heatLet stand for 10 minutes drain
4. Heat oven to350 Stir
5. margarine
6. and onion into noodles
7. Stir eggs into
8. sour cream
9. Stir
10. egg
11. mixture
12. ham salt pepper and caraway seed if desired into noodles
13. Sprinkle bread crumbs evenly
14. in
15. a greased 2-quart casserolePour noodle mixture into
16. casserole Sprinkle
17. with
18. paprika
19. Bake
20. uncovered until
21. mixture is set 40 to 45 minutes
22. Serve from casserole orunmoldonto
23. heated platter
24. To
25. unmold loosen edge of noodles
26. around inside rim with knife
27. Place inverted platter over
28. casserole
29. invert noodles
30. onto platter
31. Garnish with parsley if desired
32. Serves 4