Chipped Beef on Toast-we also called it what your Grammy did.
We used the dried beef, 1/4 c butter melted in skillet. Add 1/4 c flour and mix. Slowly stir in 2 cup milk and 1/4 tsp pepper. Will be a cream base (roux). Simmer 1 min. Add the chipped beef (2 oz pkg). Simmer 5 min. Serve over warm toast.
When we didn't have chipped beef on hand, we fried up hamburger and made it the same. Don't forget the pepper! Really adds to it. Growing up we had this on homemade baking powder biscuits.
Got married and my DH asked me to make him some. Turns out they called it the same thing. He joined the Nat'l Guards and became a cook. They made the same thing. They also used hamburger and put it on biscuits.