[Sca-cooks] Weird American food? SOS

[Elaine Koogler]

Well, after all...I did say that the recipe Phillip uses came from a MARINE
mess sergeant...maybe that accounts for the difference!

Kiri  ;-P

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 4:56 PM, Lawrence Bayne <shonsu_78 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> IF you really want your SOS to have that rich GRAY colour from the Army,
> you MUST make it with chipped beef, AND leave out the salt until just before
> serving. Even then it may have too much depending on who and how it is
> cured. Hamburger will work but the colour is all wrong and you MUST add
> salt.
> YIS
> Lothar
>
>
> --- On Mon, 7/21/08, Maria Buchanan <scarlettmb at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > From: Maria Buchanan <scarlettmb at sbcglobal.net>
> > Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Weird American food?
> > To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
> > Date: Monday, July 21, 2008, 9:34 AM
> > I've never put ground beef in Creamed Chipped Beef.
> > (Sorry, I just can't say the other name for it.  It
> > sounds horrible.)
> > Laters all
> > Maria
> > --- "Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius"
> > <adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 7:47 AM, Elaine Koogler wrote:
> > >
> > > > No problem...I just needed to pick Phillip's
> > > brain.  It really is
> > > > the best
> > > > I've ever eaten.  Of course, what I grew up
> > with
> > > was what my mom
> > > > made, which
> > > > was to make a sauce out of Campbells Cream of
> > > Mushroom soup and add
> > > > the
> > > > chipped beef.  It was good, but Phillip's is
> > SO
> > > much better!
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't think I've ever, in my life, laid eyes
> > upon
> > > chipped beef. The
> > > photo in Wikipedia looks like a somewhat
> > > more-aggressively-cured
> > > version of Lebanon Bologna. I had always thought,
> > > and been told, both
> > > by my father and also hearing from such sources as
> > > Julia Child (who
> > > was not without military experience), that S.O.S.
> > > was made from
> > > shredded corned beef. I could picture my late father
> > > eating this in
> > > the Army and simply having no clue as to what he was
> > > eating, but Julia
> > > Child? I'm surprised.
> > >
> > > I assume the ground beef is to cut the salt content
> > > somewhat?
> > >
> > > Adamantius
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Most men worry about their own bellies, and
> > other
> > > people's souls,
> > > when we all ought to worry about our own souls, and
> > > other people's
> > > bellies."
> > >                     -- Rabbi Israel Salanter
> > >
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