Cowboy Bread
A rough inspiration for folks who can sleep on a bedroll.
Ingredients:
about 1.5 cps wet frothy sour dough starter
1 cp flour
1 healthy pinch salt
1 tbs sugar
1 dollop of bacon grease or butter
Method:
This is for one person, because as everyone knows, cowboys are loners.
Dump a tin cup of flour into a bowl, add a healthy pinch of salt and
tablespoon of sugar.
Cowboys have no need for teaspoons.
Pour in some active sour dough starter from the jug and mix with
flour until it comes out chunky on the dry side. Impossible to say
exactly how much because everybody's starter varies in hydration, but
add no other liquid, just the frothy sour dough.
Save water in a canteen for later.
Force the dough around for several minutes with a chipped wooden
spoon, cussing, and throw it onto a floured tabletop.
Dust mass with flour and roll with a whiskey bottle into a flat pancake.
Sprinkle both sides with more flour, go do some chores and come back
about half an hour later.
Carefully knock off the extra flour, and slide onto sizzling bacon
grease in the cast iron griddle.
Turn heat down to almost zero, cover, and toast as long as possible
without burning. Flip and repeat.
When both sides are browned and some rising has taken place, it is done.
Eat with beans and rinse mouth well before playing harmonica after.
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