Creamed Dried Beef - American Recipe

Creamed Dried Beef

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Bowl, Colander

Traditional creamed dried beef — straightforward 1920s home cooking.

Ingredients

• ¼ pound dried beef
• 1 cup White Sauce No. 2

Method

1. Remove — the skin and fibre from the dried beef, and pull the beef apart into small bits.
2. Put — the beef in a bowl, cover it with cold water, and let it soak ten minutes or more.
3. Drain — off the water from the beef by pouring through a colander.
4. Make — White Sauce No. 2 in accordance with directions on page 150.
5. Add — the dried beef to the White Sauce in the saucepan, and let it heat slowly to the boiling-point.

Tags: beef · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)

Notes

Serve on slices or strips of buttered toast.