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Full Disclosure: My family would buy the economy, store brand, pressed dried beef in those plastic pouches from the deli section.Carsons Dried Beef (which I used for this creamed chipped beef recipe) doesn’t appear to be formed and pressed, but rather is actually very thinly sliced dried beef.Armour has dried chipped beef in a jar.Hormel also sells dried beef in jars and pouches.Carl Buddig is a brand that’s popular and often used for chipped beef.Just look in the refrigerated deli section or close to where the canned tuna and vienna sausages are in your grocery store. Pat it dry and then chop into small, bite sized pieces before continuing with the recipe. If it is too salty, you can soak it in water for 10-20 minutes to remove some of the sodium. Any creamed meat (shit) served on toast (shingle) could be referred to as S.O.S.
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Pro Tip: Taste the dried beef before adding it. It refers to cream chipped beef on toast, a dish that’s been featured in Army cookbooks for over 100 years. In fact, it can be overwhelming sometimes. You won’t need to add salt to any SOS recipe, because the dried beef has plenty of sodium in it. Spoon creamed chipped beef mixture onto the toast.If you want it to be thinner, whisk in extra milk about 1/4 cup at a time until you have the thickness you want. Pro Tip: You can adjust the consistency of the chipped beef gravy by adding more milk.Once the mixture comes to a boil, cook it for one minute until the sauce (béchamel) thickens. Whisk in the milk and half and half and bring to a boil over medium high heat.Cook the roux for about one minute, stirring constantly to cook the flour.Add the flour, black pepper and cayenne and whisk together to form a paste (called a roux).Melt the butter in a heavy skillet with 2″ to 3″ high sides, over medium high heat.I frequently fix the dish at home and add green peas and sometimes spinach and then serve it on a baked potato. The dish is considered low-brow and a remnant of the Depression. While our Bryn Mawr sisters are scarfing down generous helpings of creamed chip beef on toast there are those who scoff at the idea of consuming such mundane fare. In Russia and China the day is marked by a celebration of labor and the military, with parades and displays of the countries dedication to the workers and the might of its armed forces. Eventually the policy was adopted and May 1 was marked as a date to celebrate this victory.
May 1, 1886, saw national strikes in the United States and Canada, which resulted in blood shed. Sophomores and seniors join the staff to quaff champagne before breakfast is served and doughnuts are passed.Ī very different celebration on May Day evolved from the struggle for the eight-hour day in 1886. The beginning of the May Day festivities is marked by a traditional breakfast of fresh strawberries and cream followed by dried chipped beef on toast served in the students’ building. The first such revelry was held on May 1, 1900, and has continued ever since. It was decided to organize an Elizabethan festival to be held on May Day. And so the gals fell into line, wearing virginal white, merrily dancing around the maypole while scattering flowers and extolling purity and innocence.įast forward to 1900 when students at Bryn Mawr College devised a project to raise money for a students’ building. Instead of being a celebration of fertility, May Day turned into a more restrained celebration reflecting the values of Merry Old England. And so it was no surprise, when in the 19th century, the Victorians insisted on a much more moral tone for the festival, emphasizing its innocence.
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It had the same old image, but the elements of sexual license and lacking any inhibitions went underground. Emerging from the cold, damp winter also inspired licentious urges in those early folk and while in the woods collecting the trees and greens boughs would enter into all sorts of temporary sexual liaisons which even that primitive society did not sanction.įor 16 years our English cousins no longer celebrated May Day until Charles II once again sanctioned the holiday. Yes, there was a maypole, which in reality, was a growing tree from the forest brought to villages to mark the oncoming of summer.
During pagan times the day marked an important seasonal transition. In truth the origin of celebrating on the first of May marked a rite of passage from the bleakness to winter to the joys of spring and summer. While the dedicated femmes at Bryn Mawr are dancing around the maypoles dolled up in diaphanous dresses and the booted and uniformed members of various armed forces are on display, the true history of May Day is ignored. I ask only that you keep an open mind for I am about to rain on that parade and reveal the secrets behind those May Day rituals. May Day with the traditional maypoles and joyous dancing in celebration of the rites of spring may seem like a slightly zany way to welcome the reawakening of nature.
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