Oldtime Eats--Cowboy Pies

[Oldtimer]

Since you fellas all et up with eatin', I have a couple of pie recipes that reputedly were cooked up by chuck wagon 'n ranch cooks. I kin well see whur they'uz pioneer level eats. One uv em is a vinegar pie 'n tother'n is a red bean pie. In spite a th names, they's actually purty good, my favrit is th vinegar pie, 'n theys easy ta make. If'n anybody's intrested, I'll post er email er PM ya th recipe(s)--state yer prefrunce.

Oldtimer

 

[Oldtimer]

Swampy,

Sum of the best resipes fer "mock" anything can taste as good if not better than the original..

I think ya gonna find that true uv th vinegar fer shore. Hit'd jest be easier on me ta post them recipes 'n quit worryin' 'bout Sparkey's megabytes so thas whut I'm agonna do. Rat now.

Vinegar Pie

1 cup sugar
2 tbsp flour
1 cup cold water
4 eggs beaten
5 tbsp vinegar
2 1/2 tbsp butter

Combine sugar and flour, add rest of ingredients, and place in saucepan. Cook til thick (about 20 minutes). Pour into pie crust and bake at 350 to 375 degrees (depending upon your oven) until crust is brown. Haul it out 'n eat it......ater it cools down a tad er ya'll be acussin' me fer yer own foolishness.


Red Bean Pie

1 cup cooked, mashed pintos (beans, not horses)
1 cup sugar
3 egg yolks beaten
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp nutmeg if'n sum got stuck in a crack in th wagin somewhurs

Combine ingredients, place in uncooked pie crust, and bake (350 degrees)
30 minutes or until set. Make meringue with leftover egg whites, spread on pie, and brown in oven.

This un here took one hour ta bake in my oven what th lightnin done kilt 'n fer me hit'll make 2 deep-dish er 3 reg pies. I rekin it depends on whether ya make up yer crusts ta fit in a bucket er a tin. Ya might wanna pertek yer crust rim from aturnin ta charcoal less'n ya jest need some ta BBQ with.

I got sum other supposedly oldtime recipes but since I ain't no accout at bakin I cain't recommend 'em ceptin ta adventurous, brave souls. Bakin fer me means agrabbin a box a Bisquick 'n bein real careful. If'n ya's up ta a adventure, I kin email ya recipes fer:

Sody Bread / Sourdough Biskits 'n Starter whut I ain't never got ta wurk / Mormon Johnny Cake / Fry Bread ("Pioneer Fried Cakes")

If'n ya's brash 'n bold as Winter, jest stik yer haid outta th winder 'n holler 'n I'll tie em ta a rock 'n flang em atcha. :wink:

Oldtimer

 

[Anonymous]

Friend oldtimer,

Thanks. Vinegar iz the key ta mitey fittin' red beans 'n rice. When ya finish cookin', put a big, lovin' spoonful a vinegar in the pot with yer beans 'n ham. Sometimes I add a bit more.

Mebbe Ole Kayak Jack will tell how he come up with vinegar 'n whether they picked up any good recipes when they wuz on them Crusades over ta Persia?

regards,

bearridge


Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.
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[Anonymous]

Vinegar....

Farmers in the 'ol days in these parts used to drink sumthin', I think it was called scrapple? They would git a cup with a lttle water, mix in a generous splash of cider vinegar and a couple teaspoons of honey, drink it down. When asked why, they just said it was ggood fer ya! Havn't heard or seen it again since the 50's. Couldn't have been that good fer ya 'cause their all dead now. Course most of 'em would be around a 140 years old now!

 

[Oldtimer]

Yak,

Oh yea! That vinegar, water, 'n honey drink is still a part of th Delta pharmcopoeia. A couple a years after I got back here, I'ze hav'n heaps of stomach trouble 'n indigestion 'n when some folks found about about it, I got that recipe time 'n agin. I'uz desprate enuf ta try it. Didn't hep nuthin but it warn't a bad drink.

My favortist Gramma, a ol pore white Irish lady 'n penny-pincher 'n workaholic, had a cure fer th common cold. She'd go ta th store 'n get th strongest juiciest onion she could find (test em with yer fingernail). Cut four er two slices 'n put em on a dinner plate on th table 'n sprinkle em with sugar. Let em set fer a day er overnight er more if ya could stand it whilst they ooze juice inta th plate. Lap up that sugar 'n onion juice 'n hit'll shorenhell clear yer head.

Oldtimer

 

[Oldtimer]

Swampy,

I misread yer post 'n thout y'uz talkin about thet vinegar drink. Oh HEELLLL yes--put sum Arm 'n Hammer bakin sody in a glass a tap water--one er two tablespoons til hit won't take no mo--that's whut chemikal folks call a 'colloidal suspension' az opposed ta 'a solution' :shock: . Drink hit down fast 'n it's th bestest 'n cheapest antacid ya can find.

(Duuhhhh! :roll: Sody is a base chemikal 'n indigestion iz a acid chemikal. Bases neutralize acids neutralize bases ad nauseum. If'n ya don't b'leeve hit, put several tablespoons a sody in yer car bat'ry.......heh, heh, heh :lol: :lol: )


Bearridge,
Ya really orter try that lemon pie......hit'll plumb surprise ya whut hit tastes lak.

Oldtimer

 

[Anonymous]

Ya really orter try that lemon pie......hit'll plumb surprise ya whut hit tastes lak.

Friend Oldtimer,

Miz Bear wuz listenin' when I went ta callin' out the stuff that goes in that vinegar pie.....rite off she sez "hot water lemon pie".......cept ya use lemon juice stead a vinegar. She jest showed me in the ole time cookin' book where its called "lemon pie"....but no vinegar.

I wuz bout ta hit the "submit", but we went ta disagreein' over vinegar 'n lemon juice. I figger them cowboys dont tote lemons in the covered up wagons, but Po Campo could cook near bout whatever ya wanted. Next she sez the lemon pie jest gits skillet cooked n' the poured in the pie crust...no more bakin'.

Anyhow, I'm switchin' gears over ta Italian dressin'. [Round here we call it "eye-talian"] ;-) I'm headed out ta find my own thread, so the Off Topic Cops dont git after me.

regards,

bearridge


P.S. Kin ya step outside in the skeeters without soakin' yerownself in that deet? It iz mitey bad over here in town, even with our high dollar skeeter plan......even with the fine breeze we had today.



More P.S. Roscoe Brown frum Arkansaw 'n Twyla iz the best pals ya ever seen. They rassle everday.






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Sundance: No, I said.
Butch: What's the matter with you?
Sundance: I can't swim.
Butch: Why you crazy, the fall will probably kill you.

 

[Oldtimer]

Bearridge,

Yessir, them cowpokes wouldn't a had no lemons ner lemon juice concentrate in them green bottles. Sech things wuz mighty scarce in south 'n west Texas 'n other places--th' cook had ta improvise on whut he mighta already knowed frum civilizashun. A ranch could rise er fall dependin on how good th cook wuz. Sorry cook 'n th hands ud move on first opportunity.

Skeeters are fierce. We got them damned skeeter farms (rice fields) all around us by th hunnerts uv acres. Come about five o'clock ya jest stay inside.

Lak I tole ya, I figgered ol Roscoe'd git hiz haid straight oncet he got over his jealous.

Oldtimer

 

[Kayak Jack]

(SNIP) a cure fer th common cold. She'd go ta th store 'n get th strongest juiciest onion she could find (test em with yer fingernail). Cut four er two slices 'n put em on a dinner plate on th table 'n sprinkle em with sugar. Let em set fer a day er overnight er more if ya could stand it whilst they ooze juice inta th plate. Lap up that sugar 'n onion juice 'n hit'll shorenhell clear yer head.

The very same thing my Momma used to give me when I was a little dipper. She didn't let the mess sit, she pressed it somehow to hurry up the process some.

I like onions so well I used to fake a cough now'n then. Couple times, I over did it and she called old Doc Roberts. He drove out to the farm house and gave me some vile tasting stuff - quinine, maybe. One taste of that stuff and any self-respecting corpse would get well.

Right then and there, I invented the world famous "inverse placebo effect". I didn't care if the stuff worked or not, I'd get up out of bed and walk around just so's I didn't have to take any more of it.