Chipped beef on toast : Odds and ends
Chipped beef on toast is slivers of meat in a creamy sauce, served on toasted bread. In military slang it is commonly referred to as “Shit On a Shingle” (SOS). Chipped beef is a dried, smoked, and salted meat product, generally sold wadded up in jars or flat in plastic packets.
The 1910 edition of the Manual for Army Cooks provides the following recipe, for a quantity sufficient for 60 men.
Ingredients
15 pounds chipped beef
1 pound of fat, butter preferred
1¼ lbs of flour
2 12-oz cans of evaporated milk
1 bunch parsley
¼ oz pepper
6 quarts beef stock
Method
Brown the flour in the melted fat. Dissolve the milk in the beef stock, and then add that to the pot. Stir this together slowly to prevent lumping, and then add the beef. Cook for a few minutes, add the parsley, and serve over toast.