Rinse dried beef under tap water to help remove some of the salty taste and rehydrate.  Cut beef into ribbons or pieces.  Melt butter in skillet over medium heat, add flour and mix well with a whisk.  Slowly add milk, mixing well.  Bring to a simmer, add dried beef and simmer about five minutes until mixture thickens.  Add black pepper to taste.

YIELD:  2 servings.

This recipe if fairly generic and many similar versions available on the internet.  As with any recipe, you can add or take away the ingredients as desired.

ALTERNATE RECIPE

2.25 oz. dried beef
1 package Southeastern Mills, Country Gravy Mix (makes 2 cups)
2 cups water
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black peppercorns (Tellicherry)
Toast of your choice
Parsley for garnish

YIELD:  2 servings.

Rinse dried beef under tap water to help remove some of the salty taste and rehydrate.  Cut beef into ribbons or pieces.  Add package of country gravy mix to a medium size sauce pot, add 2 cups of water and mix well.  Place sauce pot over medium heat, add dried beef and bring mixture to a simmer, stirring constantly.  Let simmer about 3 to 5 minutes until mixture thickens and season with black pepper to taste.

I used the alternate recipe today, pixs below, of which I also use the Southeastern Mills Country Gravy Mix when I do sausage gravy biscuits and use Mary B's Frozen Tee Biscuits which turns out excellent in my humble opinion. 

The alternate recipe was prepared on 07-21-2020 and outstanding.

PS  One of my friends Dr. Leon Smith emailed me and said, "Bill I never saw such a beautiful shingle in my life"...........grin if you must!

This recipe reminds me of my US Navy days from August 1964 to August 1968 and will copy and paste from this recipe page hyperlink: 

My first encounter with creamed ground beef on toast or SOS as the military folks call it was in August of 1964 during my US Navy Boot Camp training at Great Lakes, Illinois.  The US Navy also served it a couple different ways; using dried chipped beef and adding tomatoes and beans.  Originally, most branches of the Armed Forces used the dried chipped beef and soaked the salted dried beef overnight to hydrate and get rid of some of the salt.  Every place I was  stationed while in the US Navy served the SOS at least once a week mainly for breakfast or a late night snack before going onto the third or night shift duty.  There are other gravies of this type; Poor Man's Gravy, Sawmill, Red Eye and the classic gravy during The Great Depression Era was called "Hoover Gravy" but those gravies did not have any ground beef added because of lean or poor times and rarely used milk. 

A FEW SEQUENCE PIXS

Web page created by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 07-21-2020.