Old-fashioned dried beef in cream gravy — Creamed Chipped Beef, Chipped Beef and Pepper Gravy Dinner, and a cream cheese and dried beef spread for company.
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A hearty and comforting meal featuring sliced beef in pepper gravy served with mashed potatoes, peas, and toasted bread.
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Open in Pepper →A jar of dried beef, butter, and milk turn into supper in about fifteen minutes. It's the kind of pantry cooking that got families through lean weeks, and it still tastes like somebody took care of you.
Cooks on Pepper reach for this collection on the nights the grocery run didn't happen — payday is Friday, the freezer is picked over, and there's bread in the drawer and milk in the door.
Every recipe here leans on that same short list: Creamed Chipped Beef with butter and milk, a Chipped Beef and Pepper Gravy Dinner built on peppered gravy mix, and a Cream Cheese and Dried Beef Spread with chopped green onion for when people come by.
Rinse the beef first
Dried beef is salty. Rinse it under warm water for 30 seconds and pat dry before chopping so the gravy doesn't turn out too salty to eat.
Cook the flour paste
Stir the flour into melted butter and let it bubble 1 to 2 minutes before adding milk. That cooks off the raw flour taste.
Add milk slowly
Pour the milk in about 1/2 cup at a time, whisking constantly, so the gravy thickens smooth instead of lumpy.
Toast the bread sturdy
Use thick slices and toast them dark, almost too dark. Thin toast goes soggy within a minute under all that gravy.