Chipped beef on toast

Breakfast

is slivers of meat in a creamy sauce, served on toasted bread. In military slang it is commonly referred to as "Shit On a Shingle" (SOS). Chipped beef is a dried, smoked, and salted meat product, generally sold wadded up in jars or flat in plastic packets.

The 1910 edition of the Manual for Army Cooks provides the following recipe, for a quantity sufficient for 60 men.

This recipe left out an important step---soaking the b