Wyoming
4 dishes from Wyoming, cooked the way the place cooks them.
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Bison Chili
Ground bison cooked with a purée of toasted dried chiles and enough added fat to carry them, then simmered with pinto beans until it is thick enough to stand a spoon in.
- Total
- 2 hr 10 min
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 455 per serving
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Chuckwagon Sourdough Biscuits
An overnight sourdough sponge cut with cold fat and lifted the next morning by soda meeting the acid the night put there, baked hard and fast in a cast iron pan.
- Total
- 45 min, plus 8 to 12 hours fermenting
- Serves
- 12
- Calories
- 205 per serving
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Dutch-Oven Chuckwagon Beans
A pound of pinto beans soaked overnight, thrown into fresh water with salt pork and dried chile, and left in a low oven under a lid until the pot liquor thickens by itself.
- Total
- 3 hr 35 min, plus overnight soaking
- Serves
- 8
- Calories
- 335 per serving
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Rocky Mountain Oysters
Calf testicles peeled of their outer membrane, sliced, soaked in salted water to draw the blood, and fried in a cornmeal crust until they are crisp outside and pale and firm within.
- Total
- 55 min, plus 2 hours soaking
- Serves
- 6
- Calories
- 270 per serving