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| Member Recipes |
Several people have asked about us about having a recipe page in our
website. When I was Director of the Illinois Chapter, we had one in the
Chapter site. Several people sent in recipes and some of them were pretty
good. I think we had 4 or 5 pages or more of recipes. So, here is our recipe
page. There are many great recipes handed down by our ancestors. If you
have a recipe that you would like to share with your UPCN Brothers and
Sisters to be included in this page, please send them to President Crazy
Coyote. Don't have an old recipe that has been handed down? That's fine,
any recipe that you enjoy can be shared. If you have a picture of your dish
that you would like to include, that is fine too, we can use pictures and of
course we can have several pages. The recipes will be in no specific order
and will not be in categories. They will just be listed. This is for ease of
working on the web page and time saving. Enjoy!
website. When I was Director of the Illinois Chapter, we had one in the
Chapter site. Several people sent in recipes and some of them were pretty
good. I think we had 4 or 5 pages or more of recipes. So, here is our recipe
page. There are many great recipes handed down by our ancestors. If you
have a recipe that you would like to share with your UPCN Brothers and
Sisters to be included in this page, please send them to President Crazy
Coyote. Don't have an old recipe that has been handed down? That's fine,
any recipe that you enjoy can be shared. If you have a picture of your dish
that you would like to include, that is fine too, we can use pictures and of
course we can have several pages. The recipes will be in no specific order
and will not be in categories. They will just be listed. This is for ease of
working on the web page and time saving. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
1-2 lbs ribs (deer or beef – I prefer deer)
1 cup potatoes
1 onion
3 big tomatoes
1 sweet bell pepper
½ cup carrots
½ cup corn
Salt & pepper
Water
**Rub meat in brown sugar if desired. Cover meat completely with water. Cover
with lid and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 ½ hour. Tear meat from
bones; put meat back in. Chop veggies. Add veggies; salt & pepper.
Family Recipe from Black Eyes, UPCN Member
1-2 lbs ribs (deer or beef – I prefer deer)
1 cup potatoes
1 onion
3 big tomatoes
1 sweet bell pepper
½ cup carrots
½ cup corn
Salt & pepper
Water
**Rub meat in brown sugar if desired. Cover meat completely with water. Cover
with lid and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 1 ½ hour. Tear meat from
bones; put meat back in. Chop veggies. Add veggies; salt & pepper.
Family Recipe from Black Eyes, UPCN Member
| Tsalagi Stew |
This cake is of my own concoction. It is great for serving to unwanted guests,
relatives wanting to borrow money, neighbors wanting to borrow tools, but
never returns them, and the in-laws. And it works too!
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Check the oven, make sure there are no pans,
pets or kids in there first.
Cake Mix Recipe:
1 cup Raisins or chocolate chips - set off to one side - your choice
3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine - softened
4 eggs, should be fresh, so choke the chicken
3 1/2 teaspoons double acting baking powder - as apposed to single acting
baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla or vanilla extract
Into a large bowl, measure all the batter ingredients along with 1 1/4 cups water;
with mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping the sides of
the bowl with a rubber spatula. DO NOT use fingers, then we have to change the
name of the cake to Cockroach-finger cake, that gets misleading because I have
never met a cockroach with fingers. Also tends to change the color of the cake.
Cake should be white, NOT pink, or red. Also, if you live in a high altitude area,
you should stand on a chair. Low altitude areas, have a seat. Put your feet up.
Now, beat at high speed for 4 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl, use the
scraper again. After 4 minutes, turn off the beater, scrape well and throw it in the
sink. Probably should unplug it first or we may not have anyone to finish the
cake.
Now, here is the fun part. There is always a fun part to almost everything I do.
You remember that cup of raisins or chocolate chips that we left setting on the
side? Well, my little cooking buddy, that is what we are going to use for the
cockroaches. Now there are 3 reasons for this, number 1, it is really tough to
catch those little buggers; number 2, they tend to pop when cooked which will
cause your cake to have a bitter taste and number 3, in some places, the
humane society and health departments frown on you using real cockroaches. I
don't know why! Anyway, sprinkle in the cockroaches, and fold them into the
batter, make sure they get distributed throughout the batter well. We don't want
one or two people getting all the cockroaches.
Okay dokey, now we need a 9 x 13 inch cake pan that has been buttered and
floured. Pour the batter into that pan, smooth it out real pretty and even. And put
it in the preheated oven, bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in
the middle comes out clean.
If that should happen, then take the cake out of the oven and cool it on a wire
rack for about 10 minutes. Now, you will need a piece of cardboard bigger than
the 9 x 13 inch pan. The cardboard from one of your suitcases will work fine, just
cut it down to the proper size, and wrap it in aluminum foil. After 10 minutes, put
the foil wrapped cardboard on a cookie sheet, place over the cake, cookie sheet
up, and turn it over removing the cake from the pan and on to the foil covered
cardboard. Probably should be using pot holders at this point, the pan is
probably still hot. Smarts don't it? Set the cake off to one side to cool and after
you perform first aid on that nasty burn we will make the frosting or icing or
whatever you per fer to call it.
FROSTING/ICING RECIPE
Now this is a good frosting because it is kinda sticky and just in case you did use
real cockroaches, it keeps them from escaping.
The goodies:
1/2 cup Raisins or Chocolate Chips - set off to one side - again, your choice
2 Egg whites at room temperature
a dash of salt
1 teaspoon of Vanilla or Vanilla extract
1 1/4 Cups light corn syrup
In a small saucepan over medium heat, heat corn syrup to boiling; remove from
heat.
In a large bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites until foamy; add salt
and continue beating until soft peaks form. Slowly pour in the hot syrup,
continuing to beat for 6 to 8 minutes until frosting is fluffy and forms peaks when
the beater is lifted. Beat in vanilla. Let cool to room temperature before frosting
the cake.
When the frosting has cooled to room temperature. Frost the cake using the
entire bowl of frosting. Now, go get your cockroaches, the raisins or chocolate
chips, and sprinkle the all over the top and sides of the cake. Now it is not a
good idea to tip the cake on it's side to sprinkle the cockroaches on. Just kinda
press them onto the sides. Great job for the kids. Maybe a good idea to have
them wash their hands first. They may have been throwing puppy doo doo at the
neighbors!
ENJOY!
Submitted Crazy Coyote
relatives wanting to borrow money, neighbors wanting to borrow tools, but
never returns them, and the in-laws. And it works too!
Preheat oven at 350 degrees F. Check the oven, make sure there are no pans,
pets or kids in there first.
Cake Mix Recipe:
1 cup Raisins or chocolate chips - set off to one side - your choice
3 cups all purpose flour
2 cups sugar
3/4 cup butter or margarine - softened
4 eggs, should be fresh, so choke the chicken
3 1/2 teaspoons double acting baking powder - as apposed to single acting
baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla or vanilla extract
Into a large bowl, measure all the batter ingredients along with 1 1/4 cups water;
with mixer at low speed, beat until well mixed, constantly scraping the sides of
the bowl with a rubber spatula. DO NOT use fingers, then we have to change the
name of the cake to Cockroach-finger cake, that gets misleading because I have
never met a cockroach with fingers. Also tends to change the color of the cake.
Cake should be white, NOT pink, or red. Also, if you live in a high altitude area,
you should stand on a chair. Low altitude areas, have a seat. Put your feet up.
Now, beat at high speed for 4 minutes, occasionally scraping bowl, use the
scraper again. After 4 minutes, turn off the beater, scrape well and throw it in the
sink. Probably should unplug it first or we may not have anyone to finish the
cake.
Now, here is the fun part. There is always a fun part to almost everything I do.
You remember that cup of raisins or chocolate chips that we left setting on the
side? Well, my little cooking buddy, that is what we are going to use for the
cockroaches. Now there are 3 reasons for this, number 1, it is really tough to
catch those little buggers; number 2, they tend to pop when cooked which will
cause your cake to have a bitter taste and number 3, in some places, the
humane society and health departments frown on you using real cockroaches. I
don't know why! Anyway, sprinkle in the cockroaches, and fold them into the
batter, make sure they get distributed throughout the batter well. We don't want
one or two people getting all the cockroaches.
Okay dokey, now we need a 9 x 13 inch cake pan that has been buttered and
floured. Pour the batter into that pan, smooth it out real pretty and even. And put
it in the preheated oven, bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in
the middle comes out clean.
If that should happen, then take the cake out of the oven and cool it on a wire
rack for about 10 minutes. Now, you will need a piece of cardboard bigger than
the 9 x 13 inch pan. The cardboard from one of your suitcases will work fine, just
cut it down to the proper size, and wrap it in aluminum foil. After 10 minutes, put
the foil wrapped cardboard on a cookie sheet, place over the cake, cookie sheet
up, and turn it over removing the cake from the pan and on to the foil covered
cardboard. Probably should be using pot holders at this point, the pan is
probably still hot. Smarts don't it? Set the cake off to one side to cool and after
you perform first aid on that nasty burn we will make the frosting or icing or
whatever you per fer to call it.
FROSTING/ICING RECIPE
Now this is a good frosting because it is kinda sticky and just in case you did use
real cockroaches, it keeps them from escaping.
The goodies:
1/2 cup Raisins or Chocolate Chips - set off to one side - again, your choice
2 Egg whites at room temperature
a dash of salt
1 teaspoon of Vanilla or Vanilla extract
1 1/4 Cups light corn syrup
In a small saucepan over medium heat, heat corn syrup to boiling; remove from
heat.
In a large bowl, with mixer at high speed, beat egg whites until foamy; add salt
and continue beating until soft peaks form. Slowly pour in the hot syrup,
continuing to beat for 6 to 8 minutes until frosting is fluffy and forms peaks when
the beater is lifted. Beat in vanilla. Let cool to room temperature before frosting
the cake.
When the frosting has cooled to room temperature. Frost the cake using the
entire bowl of frosting. Now, go get your cockroaches, the raisins or chocolate
chips, and sprinkle the all over the top and sides of the cake. Now it is not a
good idea to tip the cake on it's side to sprinkle the cockroaches on. Just kinda
press them onto the sides. Great job for the kids. Maybe a good idea to have
them wash their hands first. They may have been throwing puppy doo doo at the
neighbors!
ENJOY!
Submitted Crazy Coyote
| Dave's Cockroach Cake |
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3 cups flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup warm water
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Add warm water in small amounts and knead
dough until soft but not sticky. Adjust flour or water as needed. Cover bowl and
let stand about 15 minutes.
Pull off large egg-sized balls of dough and roll out into fairly thin rounds. Fry
rounds in hot oil until bubbles appear on the dough, turn over and fry on the
other side until golden.
Serve hot. Try brushing on honey, or making into an Indian Taco.
Buttermilk Fry Bread - Substitute buttermilk for water. Follow the same recipe.
Submitted By Crazy Coyote
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup warm water
Combine dry ingredients in a bowl. Add warm water in small amounts and knead
dough until soft but not sticky. Adjust flour or water as needed. Cover bowl and
let stand about 15 minutes.
Pull off large egg-sized balls of dough and roll out into fairly thin rounds. Fry
rounds in hot oil until bubbles appear on the dough, turn over and fry on the
other side until golden.
Serve hot. Try brushing on honey, or making into an Indian Taco.
Buttermilk Fry Bread - Substitute buttermilk for water. Follow the same recipe.
Submitted By Crazy Coyote
| Cherokee Fry Bread |
Handful = the quantity obtained by using the hand as a scoop, filling it as full as
possible.
Two Fingers or Three Fingers = these measurements are used for dry materials
such as baking powder, salt, etc. Use the number of fingers called for. Hold them
close together. Dip into the material and lift out with the fingers and thumb
without turning the hand.
One Finger Of Fat = use your little finger as a scoop and scoop out as much fat
as will stay in the bend of your little finger.
One Cup = woodsmen usually make sure that their drinking cup holds just about
one measuring cup.
Submitted By Crazy Coyote
possible.
Two Fingers or Three Fingers = these measurements are used for dry materials
such as baking powder, salt, etc. Use the number of fingers called for. Hold them
close together. Dip into the material and lift out with the fingers and thumb
without turning the hand.
One Finger Of Fat = use your little finger as a scoop and scoop out as much fat
as will stay in the bend of your little finger.
One Cup = woodsmen usually make sure that their drinking cup holds just about
one measuring cup.
Submitted By Crazy Coyote
| Simplified Measurements Often Used by Indians, Woodsmen, Mountain Men and Guides Taken from an old handwritten Cookbook written in pencil. |
