Recipe for “Marine Breakfast”

(Serves eight or two hungry Marines)
½ pound ground beef (ground chuck for flavor)
1-tablespoon bacon fat (lard/Crisco or butter)
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups whole milk (add more milk if you want it thinner)
1/8-teaspoon salt
Pepper to taste
8 slices of dry toast

Using a large skillet (12-14 inches), crumb1e and brown the ground beef with fat and salt. Remove the pan from the heat and let cool slightly. Mix in the flour until all of the meat is covered, using all of the flour. Replace the skillet on the heat and stir in the milk. Keep stirring until the mixture comes to a boil and thickens (boil a minimum of one minute).

Serve over the toast. Salt and pepper to taste.

Contrary to the misconception that "a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down", I think a tablespoon of fat does the job better.

I have a friend who was a cook in the Marines. We have asked him many times to make SOS for us, and he always gives the same response -- "I only have recipes for 700 people!"

Harvey