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Default Creamed chipped beef recipe?

Nancy2 wrote:
> On Jun 23, 11:57 am, Ken > wrote:
>> Anyone have a favorite creamed chipped beef (SOS) recipe? I prefer the
>> was Stouffer makes it but that is quite expensive for a couple of ounces
>> - two skimpy meals. I looked in my old 60s JOC but the recipe ingredients
>> didn't look like those I am used to. My much newer JOC doesn't have a
>> recipe, or if it does I can't find it.
>>
>> I'd prefer to get a recipe here from someone who has tried it. I've been
>> disappointed with several web site recipes I've tried.
>>
>> Also, where do they keep the dried beef in the supermarkets these days? I
>> haven't seen it for years. Used to be near the sausage and packaged lunch
>> meats. Maybe I just didn't notice carefully enough.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>> Ken
>>
>> --
>> "When you choose the lesser of two evils, always
>> remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner

>
> Just make a basic white sauce and add the diced chipped beef. Pepper
> and/or other spices to taste. I love it, but it's an indulgence for
> me.
>
> There are packages of "dried beef" hanging on the pegs in the lunch
> meat aisle. For the authentic, old-timey stuff, still in glass jars
> in the canned meat aisle.
>
> N.

I was in a Big Lots store not to long ago and found four jars of chipped
beef, the small ones, for 49 cents each. Got all four of them. We ate
the last a couple of weeks ago.