BajaNomad - SOS...a recipe

SOS...a recipe

tripledigitken - 2-12-2012 at 09:19 AM

DENNIS,

You brought back a memory from childhood for me. My Dad used to make this every once in awhile, memories for him from the Navy. I found this online and it's pretty close to his version.

SOS (creamed chipped beef on toast)

Ingredients:

• 4 Tbs butter
• Large jar of Armour dried chipped beef (on the canned meat aisle in the grocery store, comes in a clear jar with a blue lid - comes in two sizes, get the big one)
• Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
• 1 Tbs Worcestershire sauce
• 1 recipe cream sauce (see below)
• 4 to 8 slices toasted white bread
Directions:
Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over moderate heat. Add the chipped beef and Worcestershire sauce and stir to combine. Remove from the heat. Taste for seasoning with salt and pepper - the chipped beef may already be salty enough. Combine with the cream sauce and spoon over toasted white bread. Serves 4.

Cream Sauce

Ingredients:

6 Tbs butter
6 Tbs flour
1 cup beef or chicken broth, or milk
1 cup heavy cream
Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
A grating of fresh nutmeg

Directions:

Melt the butter in a heavy saucepan over moderate heat. Stir in the flour and allow to bubble for 3 to 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the liquids and the seasonings and stir constantly with a whisk until thick and creamy. Makes about 2 cups.

DENNIS - 2-12-2012 at 09:24 AM

Thanks Ken.
I'd rather have a plate of the above recipe than a New York Steak....any day. For those of us down here that can't find canned chipped beef, ground beef can be a substitute. It's all good.

DianaT - 2-12-2012 at 09:32 AM

I sure remember eating that as a child, but I don't remember it being that rich---don't think my dad used heavy cream?

Dang--- now I am also thinking about how grandma used to trim the fat from the pork chops and with lots of salt fry it up---so good. And how after frying almost anything, dad used to gently fry up a slice of bread --- bread, of course, was either Weber's or Wonder's white bread and the grease was certainly not olive oil. :biggrin:

[Edited on 2-12-2012 by DianaT]

goldhuntress - 2-12-2012 at 09:48 AM

I actually just had some at my folks a few months ago! I don't know the exact recipe but I know there's not heavy cream in my Moms. Nonetheless it's so good and a great childhood memory for me.

desertcpl - 2-12-2012 at 10:32 AM

Yup I remember eating this alot growing up, my dad was in the Navy WWII in the Pacific, he liked it alot

we have SOS still, for a quicky we go to the frozen section
and get Stouffers Cream chipped beef, its really not bad at all

Natalie Ann - 2-12-2012 at 10:52 AM

Speaking from a lifetime of experience, the most important ingredient - bar none -
is that the dried/chipped beef be the Armour brand in the glass jar with the blue lid.
And the bread really needs to be toasted white balloon bread. :rolleyes:

I'm with your dad on this, Ken.
SOS - one of life's great comfort foods. :biggrin:

nena

bajajazz - 2-12-2012 at 10:54 AM

Right after WWII there was a funny cartoon in the New Yorker.

A young man is seated at the breakfast table with his father while his mother is serving creamed chipped beef on their plates. She has a stricken look on her face while her son is saying, "Well, gee, Mom, that's what we called it in the Army."

(It's a terrific breakfast dish, will set you up for a whole day. I love it.)

desertcpl - 2-12-2012 at 10:56 AM

we like it best on toasted sourdough

desertcpl - 2-12-2012 at 10:58 AM

with a little salt and pepper and I like a little Tabasco

sanquintinsince73 - 2-12-2012 at 11:16 AM

I wish I could taste just one more time the SOS thy used to serve us at MCRD, that was the best stuff ever. It was some sort of white sauce with little bits of what appeared to be minced meat on a slice of I think toast. God I miss that.

DianaT - 2-12-2012 at 11:20 AM

OH NO,

Sourdough and tabasco----sounds like blasphemy to me--

Next it will be unsalted chipped beef, or maybe dried tofu and olive oil instead of butter. :biggrin:

Then again, homemade biscuits are very good with it and I do like tabasco on just about everything. :yes:

[Edited on 2-12-2012 by DianaT]

mcfez - 2-13-2012 at 10:02 AM

GREAT stuff! My Pops would make this every week for chow down. I make it 45 years later......still......I do however add diced Bell Peppers.

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watizname - 2-13-2012 at 10:03 AM

I think one of the reasons the MCRD SOS was so good was that our bodies needed every single calorie that we could get. I think I ate everything on my tray everytime we went to the chow hall. Some of the stuff I don't know what it was. Still came out at about 120 lbs. :biggrin:

watizname - 2-13-2012 at 10:04 AM

UMMMMM--- McFez, Now I gotta go cook somethin. Boy does that look good.

sanquintinsince73 - 2-13-2012 at 10:06 AM

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Originally posted by watizname
I think one of the reasons the MCRD SOS was so good was that our bodies needed every single calorie that we could get. I think I ate everything on my tray everytime we went to the chow hall. Some of the stuff I don't know what it was. Still came out at about 120 lbs. :biggrin:

For some reason the milk also tasted delicious. I couldn't get enough of it.

durrelllrobert - 2-13-2012 at 12:42 PM

used to have it every week growing up in Montana. Sometimes mom sustituted caned tuna on Fridays.

Spam...the essential ingredient in Hawaiian Food..

EnsenadaDr - 2-13-2012 at 12:54 PM

How unhealthy diets can be.....this thread reminds me of being in Hawaii...it's a Diabetics nightmare...spam with eggs, spam on a sandwich...Hawaiians love Spam!!! They even have it in the Waikiki McDonald's....they also have Macaroni Salad and Rice with every meal...thank God for Tuna fish...they also love Poke...which is a marinaded type of sushi...Can't wait to move back in 6 months...ha ha...

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
used to have it every week growing up in Montana. Sometimes mom sustituted caned tuna on Fridays.

Kalypso - 2-13-2012 at 01:05 PM

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Originally posted by EnsenadaDr
How unhealthy diets can be.....this thread reminds me of being in Hawaii...it's a Diabetics nightmare...spam with eggs, spam on a sandwich...Hawaiians love Spam!!! They even have it in the Waikiki McDonald's....they also have Macaroni Salad and Rice with every meal...thank God for Tuna fish...they also love Poke...which is a marinaded type of sushi...Can't wait to move back in 6 months...ha ha...

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Originally posted by durrelllrobert
used to have it every week growing up in Montana. Sometimes mom sustituted caned tuna on Fridays.

Aw come on...not a fan of Spam? Can't be any worse than a plate of rolled tacos smoothered in guacamole and cheese...could it?

Spam...

EnsenadaDr - 2-13-2012 at 01:16 PM

I care to choose my carbohydrates and sodium, thanks!!! BTW, both of these foods became popular during the war because they were canned and therefore not perishable...I guess that's how they became extensively used during that time...

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Originally posted by Kalypso

Quote:

Originally posted by durrelllrobert
used to have it every week growing up in Montana. Sometimes mom sustituted caned tuna on Fridays.

Aw come on...not a fan of Spam? Can't be any worse than a plate of rolled tacos smoothered in guacamole and cheese...could it?

BajaBlanca - 2-13-2012 at 01:16 PM

SOS ???? I have never heard of this ..... where have I been ?

zforbes - 2-13-2012 at 01:17 PM

SOS was for dinner when dad cooked; his breakfast dish was another one we loved: wonder bread with a hole in the center, fried up in bacon grease, with an egg fried in the center hole. Don't know if this was an army recipe or an Iowa farm recipe. Don't know if it had a catchy name like SOS. :lol:

How is this related to Baja? Well, I'd put hot sauce on it now that I'm in Baja.

[Edited on 2-13-2012 by zforbes]

24baja - 2-13-2012 at 01:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by DENNIS
Thanks Ken.
I'd rather have a plate of the above recipe than a New York Steak....any day. For those of us down here that can't find canned chipped beef, ground beef can be a substitute. It's all good.

So can tuna, Grandma called it creamed tuna on toast.

24baja - 2-13-2012 at 01:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zforbes
SOS was for dinner when dad cooked; his breakfast dish was another one we loved: wonder bread with a hole in the center, fried up in bacon grease, with an egg fried in the center hole. Don't know if this was an army recipe or an Iowa farm recipe. Don't know if it had a catchy name like SOS. :lol:

How is this related to Baja? Well, I'd put hot sauce on it now that I'm in Baja.

[Edited on 2-13-2012 by zforbes]

We called it egg in a hole here in Oregon.

BajaBlanca - 2-13-2012 at 01:42 PM

well, Baja related only because we live in Baja: Les makes a (what i believe is) traditional British dish called BAKED BEANS ON TOAST. Interesting how it seems slightly related to the SOS.

mulegejim - 2-13-2012 at 02:23 PM

I have cooked SOS at the fire station many times in the past. Recipe was very close to the one Dennis posted, however, I added chopped hard boiled eggs at the end. Also, liked it served over toasted English muffins. Might whip up a batch in the near future. Jim

DENNIS - 2-13-2012 at 02:30 PM

I think Ken posted that, Jim, but if it's a good recipe, I'll take credit for it. :lol:

I tended bar in a place in Newport Beach [well...actually a few places] and we served SOS. That's what it said on the menu...SOS.
"Baer's Lair." Anyone remember that place? I only remember part of it, but like someone said about Haight Ashbury in the sixties, "If you remember it, you weren't there."

Fernweh - 2-13-2012 at 02:38 PM

Hmmmmm,

while you guys were splurging around with heavy cream and beef

we only had a thin soup from sugar beets and old bread - in between runs to the air raid shelters

Karl

mulegemichael - 2-13-2012 at 02:42 PM

i SO hated sos as a kid; would gag on it and make a scene...my dad, too, was a ww11 vet and loved the stuff....my folks would respond to my antics over this slop by both promptly lighting a lucky strike and pall mall and waiting me out....nothing like the combo of sos and cigarette smoke.....ahhhh, the 50s...

wessongroup - 2-13-2012 at 02:55 PM

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Originally posted by mulegemichael
i SO hated sos as a kid; would gag on it and make a scene...my dad, too, was a ww11 vet and loved the stuff....my folks would respond to my antics over this slop by both promptly lighting a lucky strike and pall mall and waiting me out....nothing like the combo of sos and cigarette smoke.....ahhhh, the 50s...

... WOW thanks for the memories... and we didn't have hot sauce at our table.. oh, the horror... :biggrin:

wessongroup - 2-13-2012 at 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BajaBlanca
well, Baja related only because we live in Baja: Les makes a (what i believe is) traditional British dish called BAKED BEANS ON TOAST. Interesting how it seems slightly related to the SOS.

Ditto's on that one... Baked beans on toast... a real standby for others... but, don't forget the "bangers"...

[Edited on 2-13-2012 by wessongroup]

DENNIS - 2-13-2012 at 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zforbes
Don't know if this was an army recipe or an Iowa farm recipe.

Must be Iowa farm...or Beverly Hills.....something like that. Definitly not Army. :lol:

Bajahowodd - 2-13-2012 at 06:04 PM

I think that SOS gave me shingles! :lol:

Betty Grable eggs....

EnsenadaDr - 2-13-2012 at 06:33 PM

This dish was famously featured in the 1941 Betty Grable movie Moon Over Miami, earning it the name "moon-over-miami" eggs (although it was referred to in the film as "gas house eggs").

It later made a notable appearance in the 1987 film Moonstruck, and several recipes for the dish have since been named "Moonstruck Eggs".

The dish also appeared in the 2006 V for Vendetta film as "eggy in the basket".

Musician Brian Wilson said in 1965: "I love "egg-in-the-hole". It’s about the only thing I can cook, but it is great. You pinch out the center of a piece of bread, butter it, place it in a frying pan and put a raw egg in the hole. The entire thing cooks together and is very, very tasty." [1]

Musician Rob Crow composed the song "Eggy in a Bready II" in honor of the dish. The song was recorded by Crow's band Heavy Vegetable for their 1994 release The Amazing Undersea Adventures of Aqua Kitty and Friends. The lyrics of the song outline the ingredients and implements necessary for preparing the dish.

Top Gear's Richard Hammond mentions Egg in the basket, without exactly knowing what it was, on BBC Radio 2's breakfast show on Bank Holiday Monday in August 2007. His wife, Mindy, made the dish for him and Hammond was unsure whether it was a real dish or something just made up by his wife. He was educated by listeners of the show about what it is.

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How is this related to Baja? Well, I'd put hot sauce on it now that I'm in Baja.

[Edited on 2-13-2012 by zforbes]

mulegejim - 2-13-2012 at 09:08 PM

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Originally posted by DENNIS
I think Ken posted that, Jim, but if it's a good recipe, I'll take credit for it. :lol:

Sorry Dennis, the recipe was in a post to you from tripledigitken. My mistake. Jim