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SHIT ON A SHINGLE
a traditional family recipe as
submitted by a guy named Ed
NOTE: This is a recipe that my momma
used to make for all us chilluns cause it's dirt cheap and good as shit,
but it's not all that aesthetically pleasing. She called it Stuff on Bread,
but it's more colloquially known as Shit on a Shingle. Here goes.
INGREDIENTS:
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1 can of corned beef (manufacturer of your
choice). Or, optionally, if you just got paid, you can use ground beef
which tastes better.
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Jar of mayo (the whole thing will not be used)
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Bread to feed the five thousand (or just you
if you're a loser and have to eat alone.)
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Flour (amount depends on number of folks eating)
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Water (amount depends on amount of flour)
PROCEDURE:
Heat a sauce pan to about medium high heat.
Put some water in the pan, but do not boil. Add some flour. The amount
of water should be significantly more than the flour, for you are making
a soupy mixture. This part is prepared much like flour gravy, only not
as thick. As the flour heats, it should turn a suspiciously ugly brown
color. Add water and/or flour until you have enough sauce to feed the crowd
that happens to be mooching off of you that day. About 1/2 cup of this
mixture serves one moderately.
After the sauce is brown in color, and
it is to the consistency of your choice, add the entire contents of the
can of corned beef. (Or for you rich people, ground beef.)
Heat for another 5 minutes or so, long enough to warm the fake beef.
When heated to taste, take off heat and
slap some mayo on a piece of bread (one side only), and lay, mayo side
up, on an eating surface. Cover bread with the "shit" and eat with utensil
of your choice. I find that a fork works well. Eat it like a piece of pie
or something. I also find it useful to double stack. Make like above, then
prepare another piece of bread, stack on first and cover like before. if
you don't like to spend a lot of time in the actual eating process, this
gets it over with quicker.
The corned/ground beef roughly doubles
the amount of "shit", so when you are making the sauce, keep in mind that
you are adding flour and water to make HALF of the amount of food you are
serving.
--Ed |