" The" Creamed Dried Beef/Chipped Beef Recipe

Sherie717's Note:

This is a long-time favorite recipe of our Lancaster County, PA family passed down from my mom. She gets requests for it all the time and has to make double or triple this amount now whenever she makes it so everyone has some to take along home too. For me, it's a true comfort food if there ever was one! We always serve it over toast and/or homefried potatoes. My dad refer's to it as S.O.S. from his days in the service. (Recipe makes about 4 servings for our hungry family but it freezes very well so any leftovers won't go to waste.)

• Total Time: 1 hrs 15 mins
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 4

• 1/2 lb dried beef (chipped, available at your grocer's deli counter)
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup flour
• 3 1/2 cups milk (I use whole milk and even some heavy cream to make it thick & creamy)
• black pepper (to taste)

Directions:

1. Melt butter in 2 quart (non-stick) sauce pan or larger.
2. Shred dried beef by hand into small pieces.
3. Add dried beef to melted butter and cook over medium-high heat until edges curl (about 10 minutes but watch carefully-don't burn it).
4. Stir in flour and mix thoroughly.
5. Add milk, reduce heat to medium low and continue stirring frequently until mixture is smooth & bubbly. (Depending on how thick you like it, it may take from 20 minutes to 1 hours to achieve desired consistency).
6. When it's as thick as you'd like, bring to a boil, stirring constantly and boil 1 minute.
7. Remove from heat and serve over toast and/or home fried potatoes.

Reviews

[Sutra]

Yes, this is true Pennsylvania Dutch Dried Beef! Most people don't bother to brown the meat, or "frizzle" it as my dutch relatives say. This really adds to the flavor. Great recipe.

[ediblemess]

This is how we make it also. The dried beef was always expensive so my mother would use good lebanon bologna and now that is what my kids prefer

[bmcnichol]

This was just as I remember. My mom use to make this all the time. We love chipped beef on toast but I have been buying the stouffers kind. Hubby said he was hungry for it and I had some chipped beef in the fridge and thought it couldn't be that hard to make. So I looked for a recipe and found this one. This was very easy to make and was wonderful. I followed the recipe exactly but added more milk at the end as it was a bit too thick for us. Will be using this recipe again- no more store bought for us!