Baking Powder Biscuit Deluxe

2 cups flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp cream of tartar
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbs sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 egg, unbeaten
2/3 cup milk

Sift flour, baking powder, salt, sugar and cream of tartar into bowl. Add the shortening to the flour mixture and blend together until it has a cornmeal consistency. Pour milk into flour mixture slowly. Add egg and stir to stiff dough. Knead five times. Cut with 1 1/2" cutter. Bake on cookie sheet for 10 to 15 min. at 450 degrees.

+You don't always have to cut the biscuit round if you don't have a biscuit cutter you can cut them with your pizza cutter or a knife all works.

I got this recipe from a friend Denise Holyoak. She got it out of a cattleman's wife cookbook out of Wyoming.

A Cowboy's Favorite Sandwich

2 to 3 pounds cube steak (tenderized round steak that's been extra-tenderized)
1 large onion or 2 small/medium onion
4 large biscuit, bread or French bread
Butter
Lawry's Seasoned Salt
Worcestershire Sauce
Hot Sauce

-Slice onions and cook in 1/4 stick butter until soft and light brown. Remove and set aside.
-Slice cube steak against the grain. Season with Lawry's
-Heat 2 tbs butter over high heat (in same skillet) until melted and beginning to brown.
-Add meat in single layer. Cook one side until brown, then flip and cook until brown, about a minute on both sides.
-Add Worcestershire sauce to taste, 5 to 6 shakes hot sauce, and 2 tbs butter. Add cooked onions. Stir to combine.
-Butter halved bread and brown on skillet.
-To assemble, lay bottom half of bread  on plate. Place meat mixture, followed by a spoon full of juice from the pan. Top with other half of roll, cut in half, and devour!

+A lot of time a cowboys family lives to far from the store to just zip on down and pick up a bag of French Roll. In the picture above I used a biscuit recipe, but instead of cutting round, I used my pizza cutter and cut them long so that I could then cut in half to put my meat mixture in. Or you could use your light bread recipe and forming the dough to look like French/Deli Rolls

+In this recipe I added green chili strips which I think added extra flavor. Your choice.

Dorann's Fry Bread

2 cups flour
2 tbs sugar
1 tsp salt
3 tsp baking powder

Mix all ingredients up add warm water till you can handle good. Knead about 5 min. put shortening on hands and rub on dough. Cover let set about 1/2 day or put in Grig over night. Cook in shortening. Shortening makes the bread taste better.

This recipe was given to me by my friend Dorann Despain. It was her mothers, and her mothers. A recipe that the Navajo's used for their fry bread. She says that she makes it in the morning for her evening meal.

Chilled Fruit Cup

1 can (12 oz) frozen pineapple juice concentrate, thawed
1 can (6oz) frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 cup water
1 cup sugar
2 tbs lemon juice
3 medium bananas sliced
1 pkg (16 oz) frozen unsweetened strawberries (I have used sweetened strawberries and reduced the sugar
1 can (15 oz) mandarin oranges
1 can (8oz) crushed pineapple
clear plastic cups

In a large bowl, prepare pineapple juice concentrate according to package directions. Add orange juice concentrate, water, sugar, lemon juice and fruit.

Spoon into plastic cups. Place cups in a pan and freeze. Remove from the freezer at least 40-50 before serving. Serve with spoons. (You kind of break up the frozen fruit with your spoon and eat it like a slush, you can also add 7-up to make it bubbly)

Fluffy Dumplings

1 cup flour
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup milk or more if needed to make a sticky dough
2 tbs oil

Sift flour, baking powder and salt together into mixing bowl. Combine milk and salad oil; add all at once to dry ingredients, stirring just till moistened.

Drop from tbs atop bubbling stew. Cover tightly; let mixture boiling. Reduce heat (don't lift cover) simmer 12 to 15 min. Makes 10

Spanish Style Chicken and Dumplings

1 quart of chicken stock
2 tbls oil
3/4 lb chorizo, casings removed and chopped or crumbled
1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs or breast tenders, diced
3/4 pound medium to large white mushrooms quartered(I just used sliced can mushrooms
1 medium onion chopped
2 to 3 large garlic cloves chopped (I just used garlic salt)
salt and pepper to taste
2 tbs of flour
1 small box biscuit mix to make the dumplings (I just used from scratch dumpling recipe)

In a large deep skillet with a lid or a Dutch oven heat oil over medium heat. Add the chorizo and render and brown for about 2 minutes, then add the chicken and lightly brown. Stir in the mushrooms, onions and garlic as you chip them and add the salt and pepper to taste. Mix up the biscuit mix. While the liquid is boiling drop the biscuits in small mounds onto the chicken soup. Put on a good fitting lid, turn down heat to low and cook for about 15 min.

Ladle into a shallow serving bowls and serve.

+I add some egg noodles in the soup before I added the dumplings all is good. Your choice.

Poor Mans Cake

This cake is made with tomato juice and no eggs.

3/4 cup shortening
1 cup sugar
1 cup tomato juice
3/4 cup water
1 tsp soda
3 cup flour
3/4 tsp salt
2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp Cinnamon
1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp cloves

Mix altogether Bake in a slow oven at 350 for about 35 min. until done. Bake in a 9x13 pan.

This recipe was my Grandmother Porters. My mothers mother.

Carmel Corn

1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup Karo syrup
1 cube butter or margarine (half of a cup)
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp vanilla
20 cups Popped popcorn

Add brown sugar, Karo syrup, and butter. Cook it till it comes to a rolling boil. Add 1 can sweet condensed milk. Bring to rolling boil again. Add 1 tsp vanilla. Pour over popcorn and mix.

You may need more or less popcorn depending on how much Carmel you like on your popcorn.

Hot Fudge Topping

2 cups of sugar

1 can evaporated milk

6 tbs of cocoa plus 2 tbs of butter or margarine

1 tsp vanilla

Cook over medium heat at a slow boil for 15 min.

Beat until it looses it glossy.

Serve on your favorite ice cream

Fried Rice

Cook ahead of time 2 cups of rice which will in the end make about 4 cups.

In a skillet fried about a 1/2 pound of bacon cut up.

When it is done add chopped onion, celery or any fresh vegetables . stir fry in pan until translucent.

In a separate pan scramble 2 to 3 eggs until dry and crumbly.

Add rice and scrambled eggs to your Bacon, onion and vegetables mixture.

Season with salt and pepper and soy sauce to your taste (opt)