Montana

• Bison Stew

  Bison chuck browned in fat it does not supply itself, then braised low and slow with onion, root vegetables and red wine until the collagen gives way and the meat stays short of dry.

  Total

  3 hr 25 min

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  520 per serving

• Butte Pasty

  Diced sirloin, potato and onion mixed together, wrapped in plain pastry and baked hot, then eaten with brown gravy poured over it — the Butte version, written from the recipe a Cornish woman gave the Montana Writers' Project in 1943.

  Total

  1 hr 35 min, plus 1 hour chilling the pastry

  Serves

  6

  Calories

  990 per serving

• Butte Pork Chop Sandwich

  A thin boneless loin cutlet dipped in a loose batter, fried hard and fast, and put on a small soft bun with mustard, pickle and raw onion — nothing else, and no bone anywhere in it.

  Total

  30 min

  Serves

  4

  Calories

  770 per serving

• Huckleberry Pie

  A double-crust pie of wild mountain huckleberries, set with tapioca and sweetened just enough to stop short of jam, because the fruit is not a blueberry and should not be treated as one.

  Total

  1 hr 30 min, plus 1 hour chilling and 4 hours cooling

  Serves

  8

  Calories

  490 per serving

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