below is the recipe from the marines - perhaps not quite as elegant as yours
(also scaled down for fewer servings)
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Quoted message said:This creamed beef recipe is wildly popular with senior citizens dining at
the Feed Bag.
Ingredients:
1 pound ground beef
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 small diced onion
3 cups heavy cream
1 tablespoon molasses
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Brown the ground beef with the sugar, salt, cumin, chili powder, onion and
pepper. You may drain excess fat (we don't at the restaurant).
Add the heavy cream, molasses and Worcestershire sauce.
Cook down until completely thickened.
Put into a blender and puree.
Garnish with a tomato wedge.
SOS Ingredients:
1 pound canned ground beef, or similar appearing meat or meat substitute
1 quart canned oil (cooking oil, preferably)
5 lbs canned flour
1 tsp canned onion powder or canned garlic powder or canned cream of tartar
water as needed (if using sea water, reduce salt by half)
1/4 teaspoon canned pepper
canned salt - 1 tbs to 1 handful, depending on your day.
1 loaf canned bread
Toast the bread on one side _only_ on the griddle, the day before if
possible, and store overnight in the cooler with the oil (do not pour oil
over bread !).
Grey the ground faux-beef in some water in a steam kettle.
Puree faux beef in power mixer for 5-10 minutes and return to steam kettle.
Add dry ingredients (not bread) and stir well (cigarette ash adds zest)
Boil until an off-grey.
Add 3-4 tbs oil (just enough to make mix thicken so a large serving spoon
can be bent in mix) and heat thru.
Immediately before serving, pour remainder of cold oil over mix, stirring it
lightly into mix so as to have pleasantly shaped clumping of the pureed
meat-like ingredient, and ladle generously over a slice of the bread placed
soft side down on metal mess kit pan, preferably set off center, so the cold
toasted sheet of bread can be seen.
Serve with green very slightly sweetened warmed kool-aid.
Garnish with ..
(hey, what the hell is a garnish? Hey, just kidding.
- wipe top of each serving portion with back of ladle to garnish.)
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Add the heavy cream, molasses and Worcestershire sauce.
Cook down until completely thickened.
Put into a blender and puree.
Garnish with a tomato wedge.
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