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It sounds just like creamed chiped beef maybe not as much liquid but basic starter is the same . IN a pinch I have used all kinds of meats also in mine considering that bagged chiped beef although my fav , very exspensive. I found a local slaughter house/ butchers that smoke venison an it tastes pretty similar an they also chip the meat . It is usualy the meat off the hind quarters , very good though ! The cornmush sounds pretty yummy also I am so wanting to do Pon Hoss as soon as we have our pigs butchered this spring.

My mom used to make this with chicked beef, milk gravy over toast when I was a kid, a lot! 

A can of any soup is delish. over toast. (Don`t add water). Serves 2

I was raised in the Coal Camps of West Virginia in the 1950's.  We had a bowl of this on the supper table every evening, except it was thicker and we called it gravy.  I still make it.  Love it over biscuits, or on meat.

My mom used to talk about pretzel soup, with hot milk and butter and pretzels crumbled into it.

this soup is traditionally still made in Basel, Switzerland, during carnival.

also eaten throughout the year.

tastes wonderful when sprinkled with grated cheese.

Dad was raised Amish in northern Indiana.  He said that they'd carry lard sandwiches in their lunchbox with an apple, and dip water for drinking.  During the depression, it never occurred to them that they were maybe just "getting by"... there were others who carried plain bread.

I'm guessing this gravy soup was a variation on the other "soups" Dad's family had then.  They'd open a jar of home-canned corn or green beans, dump it into a pan, then pour a gallon of fresh milk into it.  Heat it up, stir in some salt and pepper, and serve it over sliced bread (with or without butter).  We had it too often when we were going through hard times, though we weren't Amish.

Another thing they did was make cornmeal mush... with just water and salt.  Dad absolutely refused to eat it the first time my mother made it.  He said he had "that stuff" WAY too much for his lifetime, growing up, and he sure wasn't going to eat it "now"!  He watched as Mom poured milk and sugar into our bowls of mush, like warm cereal, and asked, "You mean you can eat it like THAT?"  *smile*  After that, he learned to like it.

There was "coffee soup" (sweetened coffee poured over bread) and "banana soup" (sweetened milk and mashed bananas over saltine crackers or bread) and who knows what other concoctions a creative and frugal mother made.

I suppose while they certainly got tired of eating it, it got them through another day, and enough days to raise their own families. 

 At home we ate this gravy over bread.  Tom ,my husband love mayonnaise sandwiches. My go to quick meal is peanut /jelly sandwich.

Add some shrimp and you have gumbo!

Just a brown roux used to thicken the milk...  You could add ground beef and have a good "SOS"!

Sounds like whiten whipped grease gravy to me...

My mom made this as gravy, that's southern biscuit gravy.