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S.O.B.?
BobJudy
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I had some errands to run today and while out and about stopped into the grocery store. While perusing the aisles I saw some packages of chipped beef. It has been years since I fixed up a batch of creamed chipped beef on toast also known as S.O.S. I grabbed some and fixed it for dinner tonight. Lots of fresh cracked black pepper and it turned out excellent. That plus a bowl of cut up fresh fruit really hit the spot.
Now I have a question - since I substituted fresh baked buttermilk biscuits for the toast should it be called S.O.B. instead of S.O.S.? It is important to keeps ones nomenclature correct. A S.O.B. should always be referred to as an S.O.B, don't you agree? Bob
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I make that every once in a while with deer meat.. homemade gravy on cat head biscuits
I've done that as well with ground venison. Super easy and tasty. Bob
I recall when the VA hospitals has SOS in the mess halls.
Good stuff. But, alas, no longer available for decades...
I even enjoyed it in the service!
+1 One of the few things I liked in the mess hall.
Biscuits and gravy isn't SOS
love biscuits n gravy, and love SOS too.
Wife surprised me with B&G on Sunday. She made so much I was able to eat it on two more mornings.
Chipped beef is pretty salty, so I don't fix that much these days. Ground beef isn't quite the same, but it's darn good! Many years ago in a chow hall at o'dark thirty I was enjoying some eggs and SOS when a young airman asked me what that was. I told him the full expression for SOS and he sorta screwed up his face and said "It looks more like Puke on a Plate." I laughed and took another forkful.
That's when I knew they no longer served SOS in basic training chow halls. He'd never seen or heard of it.
Our VA has had it in the past year.
S.O.S.....S.O.B......I don't care what you want to call it! Just save some for me! 😋
I grew up on many of these dishes that stick to your ribs and keep hunger away for many hours at a time. My grandma made what she called "Poor Mans Gravy" a depression era recipe basically hamburger grease white sauce that added great flavor to toast, biscuits, rice, or potato's.
S.O.S. was a staple at midnight chow when I worked the flightline doing the AM shift.
Who here makes your biscuits from scratch? 10 minutes until these are ready to bake.
Grandmother's famous biscuit recipe
5 cups flour (or 4 cups and a cup of rolled oats)
5 tsp baking
sodaPOWDER (thanks for the alert!!)1 tsp salt
half stick of butter
milk or water
Combine dry ingredients then use your fingers and crumble the butter into the dry stuff until it disappears. Add milk or water to make dry layered dough. Don't over work it, it should layer and form large clumps. Toss in more flour to encourage layering as you break off pieces to form the biscuits. Don't make it wet and nasty. Bake at 350 for a few minutes till done. Serve with lots of butter and honey.
You can use this exact same recipe for pancakes. Just add more milk.
Thanks Nanuq! I will give your grandma's recipe a try! Are you sure about the baking soda? Not baking powder is it?
Haven't had it with chipped beef since I was in the service 40 plus years ago, but have had it with hamburger, breakfast sausage and even tuna on toast and/or biscuits... when made with tuna you add peas and it really looks like P.O.A.P.! LOL
Depends on what constitutes a S.hingle... lol
Kinda off topic, but I had a late breakfast at a diner today, and they offered Loco Moco. If you don't know, that's a Hawaiian gut buster consisting of a bed of rice, a hamburger patty, and eggs, all smothered in brown gravy. And they serve it in "Hawaiian" size portions. Ever wonder why those island guys and gals are all so "plus sized?" Loco Moco.
My vow to lose a bit before Turkey Day just collapsed...
Mom used to make hamburger gravy and add chopped up hard boiled eggs. Served over biscuits usually. She liked to have sliced cantaloupe with it.
What in tarnation?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
When I was on KP at Ft. Monroe back in the '60's, I would put up a big sign by the door that said SOS tonight. It helped to keep the crowd down and my job as a DRO easier.
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!! Yes you're right, use baking POWDER.
Good Lord, can you imagine? gag
That stopped a lot of us in our reading tracks! Hope nobody made that recipe before you corrected it.
Soda if you use buttermilk tho.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Yupp, if you use an acidic liquid like buttermilk, baking soda will do the job. If you just use water you will have chalky tasting lumps only suitable for hockey pucks. Chemistry is a wonderful thing. Bob
+1...
I can't believe the military quit providing S.O.S!!! It and Grits were probably the most popular breakfast foods... 😁
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Oh no. You've started the dreaded grits argument. Worse than the beans in chili nightmare. Those of us who speak grits will cringe down our toenails at people who put sugar or syrup on grits as if they were Cream of Wheat. And those who do think that grits are merely hot cereal will stare at the screen with glazed eyes and mumble "Wha...?"
🤣😂...
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D.A.V Life Member
When my boys were young I'd feed them hamburger gravy when mom was away. Couldn't find chipped beef but they loved it!
Problem is now the hamburger is too lean to make good gravy.
And now that I don't have a gall bladder my grease tolerance is way down😥
"Wha...?"
The stuff is magic on Boy Scouts winter campouts. Just fill a pot with snow before you go to bed. In the morning start a fire and melt the snow in the pot and add package of gravy with sausage bits. Throw the bread loaf around to break it apart, then stand up bread slices so they toast against the fire. It takes just minutes to get your hot coffee and a plate of hot gravy on toast. Nothing better at Oh Dark Negative Thirty.
You pegged it, Bob. FJB is a syrup on grits guy.
Today I learned there are psychopaths who put sugar or syrup on Cream of Wheat.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
I haven't had a bowl of Cream of Wheat since that black guy was on the box!
I remember as a kid getting interrupted in the middle of breakfast and leaving my bowl of C\o\W on the table for an hour or so. When I returned that stuff turned into a solid glob of crap with the spoon stuck in it like set epoxy!! 😲
Had grits this chilly morning. With cheddar cheese, diced ham, chives, and a dash of hot sauce.
Throw in some caramelized onions and tell me what time to show up for breakfast! 😋 Bob
you put all that in to hide the taste of grits, yet you say I am crazy for putting syrup on them, where is the justice??????
We always put in raisins.
Reference Loco Moco- my friends in Hawai'i warned me it was the equivalent of putting Vienna Sausages in a hypodermic, and injecting them directly into a vein.