#882 - Creamed Dried Beef

(by Shirley McNevich)

1 - 3oz. can sliced mushrooms (diced into smaller pieces)
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp. pepper
@1 2/3 cups milk
1 - 5oz. package dried beef
4 slices bread (toasted)

Drain the mushrooms but save the liquid. Chop the mushrooms into smaller pieces--set aside. In a saucepan over low heat add butter--melt. Remove saucepan from heat--add pepper, flour--stir until thick. Pour reserved mushroom liquid into a measuring cup--add enough milk to the measuring cup to make 2 cups--add milk mixture to flour mixture in saucepan--stir. Return saucepan to stove over medium heat--stir and bring to a boil. Once boiling, reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 minute. Cut the dried beef into bite sized pieces--add chopped mushrooms and beef to the milk/flour mixture--stir and heat until hot enough to serve. Serve over toast.

#250 - Ham and Mushroom Casserole

(by Shirley McNevich)

2 TBSP butter
1 cup sliced fresh mushrooms
2 - 10.75oz. cans Campbell's cream of mushroom soup
3/4 cup milk
1 1/2 cups cooked ham (cubed)
6 hard boiled eggs (sliced or quartered)
toast or Chinese noodles

Sautee the mushrooms in the 2 TBSP butter for 5 minutes. In a saucepan, heat mushroom soup and milk together--when it's hot, add and stir in the sauteed mushrooms, cubed ham--cook for a few minutes until entire mixture is hot. Add the sliced hard boiled eggs last. Serve over toast or Chinese noodles.