GAF Muster Menu

[Delmonico]

My pard Matt "Gopher Grease" Moore and I sat down and did the final planning on the menu tonight.

We are baseing our menu on what has went over well in the past and what also works well for 50 or so folks.  Everything is based on our research on historical foods from homesteader, cowboy camps and resteraunts of the period.  We are using groceries as historical as possible and everything will be made from scratch.

You will also notice I use dinner for noon and supper for evening meals, it's the way I grew up and I'm proud to say it only took 10 years for me to get my wife trained.

Friday Dinner

Beef Stew
Homemade bread
both Peach and Blueberry Cobbler


Friday Supper
Corned Beef and Cabbage
Czech Style Pork and Kraut with Potato Dumplings
Czech Style Rye Bread
Caramel Dump Cake

I know some will say they don't like kraut, but this one is so different than what most have eaten it should be tried before you judge, brown sugar removes the sour in this dish.  If there is not bread left from dinner I'll make some more white bread also.  Matt makes the caramel from scratch.


Saturday Breakfast

Corned Beef Hash
Scrambled Eggs

You can't have corned beef and cabbage with out having corned beef hash the next day.

Saturday Dinner

Chicken Pot Pie
Tamater Steak
Bread
Apple Cake

The pot pie is because Matt posted on it in Cosie's corner and a certain lady who is married to the boss of the board wants to see it made.

Tamater Steak is a less fancy fore-runner to Swiss Steak and was a treat on trail drives if there were extra canned tamaters.  It leaves out the green peppers that many don't like.
Sunday Breakfast

Biscuits and Sausage Gravy
Scrambled eggs.

What can you say, biscuits and gravy are a favorite with most, we ain't countin' calories this weekend.


Sunday Dinner

Baked Ham
Baked Rib's with Matt's Sauce
Baked macaroni and Cheese
Baked Apples


Matt's sauce for rib's is wonderfull, don't wear yer white shirt.  Baked Mac and Cheese was a rare delicacy till the US produced the right wheat around the turn of the century.  I make it like Thomas Jefferson's cook did, it was one of his favorite dishes.  Few do in in a dutch oven, when I do the oven gets cleaned.

There will be coffee on at all times made from good beans not canned.  I have a 20 and a 32 cup pots, if anyone has a large one or two bring it if you have room, I don't know how many are serious coffee drinkers, I can drink a 32 in a day by myself.  It don't take long to produce another pot though.

[Major Matt Lewis]

Man oh Man!

[Dr. Bob]

Del & GG,

Sound GREAT!!!

I used to cook a pork roast with sour kraut.  The secret was adding some caraway seed and shredded potato to the kraut which also removes the bite and the flavor is real fine. 

My mouth is watering already.

[US Scout]

I'm drooling already!

I love corned beef and cabbage but my wife, who is 100% Irish, doesn't like it or the smell, so I can never get it at home. 

Biscuits and gravy is my breakfast of choice - and you know that breakfast can be eaten at any time of the day!

Maybe I'll just forgo the shooting and hang around the chuck wagon to insure all is going well......

[Delmonico]

Maybe she don't like it cause it's really an American Dish.

[Pvt Hoover]

Man o man.  Scout is right.  With eats like this on the menu,  gonna have to schedule siestas between dinner and sup. I am going to have to avoid foundering. What time will breakfast be Sat and Sunday, Del?
thanks

[Delmonico]

What time does the hostilities start?   

[Major Matt Lewis]

08:30 hrs.

[Dr. Bob]

Howdy,

Sounds like a gastronomical delight!  Got to get busy packing.  Don't want to miss a bite.

[Delmonico]

We'll go fer around 7 am then.  Do we need to wake up the color guard when we get up?

[Lars]

With the nice 40-50F temps and abundant wind predicted for the weekend, all that hearty food is gonna be welcome!!

Gonna be nice to have that wind to blow away the BP smoke.

Now, if the wind blows from the cook tent toward the firing lines, how we gonna keep or minds on shooting?

Lars

[Dr. Bob]

Lars,

Just put some ear plugs in your nose!  That should take care of the problem.  Don't forget to breathe through your mouth.

[US Scout]

Lars-

Where is the fun in shooting BP if the wind keeps blowing away the smoke?! 

[Lars]

US Scout,

Well, I been shooting on the windy high plains of Colorado (formerly Kansas Territory) for so long and with the wind in my face that I have almost forgotten what BP smoke really looks like. Of course, I also like to share my smoke with all those nitro shooters on the posse behind me.

Long, long ago I shot a few matches out east in places like Ohio, Illinoiss, Alabama, Maryland, Pennsylivania, where one shot in the forrest where the wind did not blow. I do remember the smoke hanging around in those places. I also remember flirting with heat stroke in those places -- much prefer nice windy, cool weather out on the plains.

Lars

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I may have to drop in just for the food!

[US Scout]

Lars,

Since you have shot in both MD and PA, you know of what I speak! 

There are some days where after the first round you can only guess where the targets are.  I find looking for the base of the stand and estimating the height of the target usually works, but not always.

[Grizzle Bear]

US Scout:

I like that...............

"Just aim belt buckle high over their boots!"


Grizzle Bear

[Lars]

"Just aim belt buckle high over their boots!"

That would work even better if those targets been eating so much of Delmonico's food that they have become bigger.

Sure hope Major Lewis is not using half-starved midget "runway model" sized targets, at least not if the wind goes away.

Lars

[Grizzle Bear]

Some of our Pepper Poppers are a little knock-kneed, but other than than they are standard.......

Grizzle Bear

[Major Matt Lewis]

No worries boys and girls.  Nobody shot the match clean last year.  I anticipate the same this year.