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CHOW: Recipes: Gubment Breakfast (inspired by the Reagan years)

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Gubment Breakfast (inspired by the Reagan years) Recipe

By tmdenmark
Difficulty: Easy | Total Time: 15-20 minutes | Active Time: | Makes: 4 portions

What can I say? Poverty inspired this recipe. The Reagan years of government cheese, bread, can goods, etc. were some of the most challenging years of my young life. I’m a witness that “necessity is indeed the mother of invention” (W. Horman) and humility is the root of true gratitude.

INGREDIENTS
  • 1 slice of bacon
  • 1 Small onion
  • 1 Tbsp Government Flour
  • 1Tbsp Water
  • 1 cup Government Cheese (shredded)
  • 2 Tbsp Government Butter
  • 3 Eggs
INSTRUCTIONS
  1. Dice and cook the slice of bacon until crispy.
  2. Mince the onion and sauté in the bacon fat.
  3. Add the flour to begin to make a sauce and add water as needed.
  4. Add the shredded government cheese. (Govt cheese was a strange “animal”, it did weird things depending on how you cooked it.)
  5. In the pot (because my sister only had one skillet), melt the pats of government butter.
  6. Beat the 3 eggs in a bowl, add to butter and scramble.
  7. Plate a serving of eggs with the cheese sauce on top.
  8. Enjoy the smile on the kids faces as they enjoy something OTHER THAN government cereal or government grits.
  9. For Lunch
    Same ingredients, MINUS the scrambled eggs, ADD a baked potato for each child.
    Fluff the baked potatoes, layer the cheese sauce in the potatoes, and sprinkle some dehydrated chives on top for aesthetics. LOL

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  • LOL this brings back some memories! I certainly don't miss the days of standing in line at the armory waiting for our powdered milk and even-worse-than-Velveeta-but-pretty-close-to-the-same-stuff-cheese. I wish my mom was even 1/4 as creative as yall because maybe meals wouldn't have been so gross!

  • In my home, we made sweet bread with the free flour, powdered eggs, powdered milk, and butter. My grandmother would bake enough to fill our freezer and share with neighbors (in our HUD housing project). My sisters and I all have very fond memories of slicing and toasting the sweet bread then topping it with free cheese, free honey, or free peanut butter. The mildness of the cheese was perfect for...+READ

    In my home, we made sweet bread with the free flour, powdered eggs, powdered milk, and butter. My grandmother would bake enough to fill our freezer and share with neighbors (in our HUD housing project). My sisters and I all have very fond memories of slicing and toasting the sweet bread then topping it with free cheese, free honey, or free peanut butter. The mildness of the cheese was perfect for us as children and it melted so easily.-COLLAPSE

  • Government eggs were powdered eggs. I was at a friends and she let me taste them and they weren't that bad if you added something in them-I think she added onions and peppers.

  • I don't recall "government eggs". There was a truck that came in the 'hood once a month and whatever was on the truck is what you had to work with.

  • Why didn't you use the Government eggs?