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Wyoming Cowboy Breakfast | Sourdough Pancakes at the Chuck Wagon
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Dec 11, 2023
Printable recipes below!It's the most peaceful time of the day, preparing breakfast for cowboys who are getting ready to start the day. We're starting off with our sourdough pancakes recipe. #cowboycooking #sourdough Special Thanks to Lazy T Ranch: https://www.lazyt.com/ Used in this video: Cowboy Coffee https://www.kentrollins.com/shop Bertha cowboy wood stove https://bit.ly/3AOYB8y Rode wireless mic: https://amzn.to/2ShDyEq Cowboy Hat: Chazhatz.com ARIAT Clothing: Kent’s Favorite Ariat products - https://bit.ly/3LdR2gn Save 10% off your first Ariat order: http://bit.ly/3JXvfst For more suggested products seen in our videos click here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/cowboykentrollins ======================
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Hi, thank y'all so much for joining us and welcome to Wyoming
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Hi. Thank y'all for joining us. We have some special episodes coming up for y'all
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What is it all about? The Great American West, the history, the food here in the beautiful state of Wyoming
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And it all starts at breakfast. Mornings
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at the wagon are very special. You know, first thing you had that wagon and uh always find me a lantern just that little hum
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of the la of a lantern that's going. And then you, you sort of tone that out to where you're just listening to what mother
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nature brings along to you. You would hear the crickets and
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then as it began to get closer to light, the coat would start again
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the turkeys would start again. But a sound that I always remember even in the dark
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early in the morning was a jingling of spurs coming towards camp
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And when you had stayed there long enough, I knew who was coming to camp
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By the way, their spurs sounded as they were getting there. You know
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when you're cooking for cowboys on a ranch, uh, they start early
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you know, I can remember the times that, uh, been as early as 230 but it's
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it's a job that I look forward to. I'd always have wood in Bertha most of the time
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uh, to where I could just sort of put a little more kindling in there or get that old propane torch out
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you know, and get that fire to rolling and coffee water was always there
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Uh, and I slide it over the top of an eye, take an eye out of Bertha and get that coffee to Bowen because that
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is the last blood of what's fixing to happen that day. So there'd usually be two big pots of coffee that we'd always have
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You know, coffee has been around forever. Uh It's not made out here in one of them
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Keurig's or anything that's a spit and sputter coffee. You know, it's just an old coffee pot that's been well seasoned from many
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many gallons of black gold that's been poured to it and, um
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slide it over that fire, let that water warm. And I'd always put in three really big handfuls of coffee
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bring that coffee to a bowl, you know, and I'm not talking just a little bowl
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I'm talking a good rolling bowl, let it bowl for four or five minutes, slide it off the fire
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put a little cold water down the spout. You had the smoothest coffee that you was ever gonna drink in your life because coffee is
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what's gonna start that crew out. That's where they had to first. All the cowboys would always gather
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get them coffee cups and that's where it started. You
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know, Bertha is, uh, got a wood stove of mine and, uh
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she's been with me a long time, but long before that, it was a hole in the ground
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you know, and you throw some great over it or something like that, which is always bending over
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Always on your knees, always down there in the fire. You never knew what fell in it
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Millers are falling in it. Bugs is crawling in it, you know, and you just keep mashing them up
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They just make a little lumpy gravy that way. But birth is self contained
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which really was a blessing on so many ranches that we own because a lot of it is just old dry grass that's a on
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in camp and always worry about one of them old holes in the ground. If the wind got up or if a coal got away
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from, you know, you could burn 40,000 acres down in a hurry when old Cookie was going down the trail in the 18 eighties
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uh, breakfast was just as important then as it is now. Sure
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They, uh, and boys had a lot of beans, they had some biscuits, they'd have some salt pork maybe
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And every once in a while, if Cookie was generous, maybe some gravy. But
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uh, you know, he, he did that job. That's what he had to work with. And uh I'm blessed that I get to be able
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to walk in his footsteps. But man, oh man, have the groceries changed
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Cookie staple with sourdough. Still is ours today. You'd put it in a croc jar
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something that you always had with you. And it's so versatile because you could use it to make bread
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pancakes, pie crust, biscuits, whatever you want to do it was just there
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It took the place of milk and so many recipes sourdough, never had yeast
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Traditionally sourdough got what it needed from the atmosphere, you know, and that's what made it grow
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I don't have a sourdough starter like that. We have what I really replicated as a quick and easy sourdough starter
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It's just water and uh sugar yeast. Uh let that yeast dissolve a little bit
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The sugar's gonna kick started. So it makes it work even faster. Add you a flyer in there about four cups
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peel a russet potato, drop it in that croc jar stirred up real well
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Put a cup towel over it so it can breathe because you have a living thing there
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Uh 12 hours in it's ready to use. The reason I use that kind of sourdough starter is I can use it one day
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three days, five days, pour it out, start another batch. It ain't like I'm having to feed somebody's sourdough starter forever and ever and ever
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My dad would tell me stories about them old cooks, having to sleep with their sourdough starter in a bedroom to keep it warm
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keep it active. You know, and you can go back to the Alaskan trappers when they were up there and they had sourdough starter and
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they kept it in a little old pouch next to their body to the chest where it always stay warm because it's
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it's gotta have that warmth to really work. Uh When we were really cooking in some colder climates
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colder ranches, we'd go a lot of times back to a baking powder biscuit or a buttermilk biscuit because you want to get that rice
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out of it. But like this morning, we started out with a sourdough pancake because really you get the tanginess of the sourdough and a
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little sweetness you add from the sugar. But when you top that off with some maple syrup
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something like that. And then you top that even more with some scrambled eggs, green chilies
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bacon. It is a full meal deal. It is a happy meal. But
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we got a few them cowboys for a long day breakfast. To me really is probably the most important meal that we can put out
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because they need that kick start. They need that energy. These people become me and Shan's responsibility
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You know, they are our family. They're something that we're having to take care of. So we wanna make sure that before they do bovine
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battle. Hey, we have thrilled them to the brim. They've got enough caloric intake that they're gonna make it to lunch
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You know, cooking for cowboys, especially at breakfast time. Um, you know
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dark's dark is there. You don't know what's really coming. Sure. I used to have a little old transistor radio in certain station and you
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catch a little weather and sometimes it is. I, I wished I'd never turned it on because you hear that weather man saying
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boy, big change is coming today here in the golden spread. Expect north winds 5560 mile an hour
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Wind chill minus 20. And I'm thinking, why did I even turn that radio on
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Weather plays a great factor. I've had did blow the fly plumb down
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rip it from shreds from one end to the other. Uh, blow tp down
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I've had it raining so hard that you couldn't hardly keep a fire going even in old Betha because it just blowing that water so
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fast, cooked under the wagon to cook biscuits, you know, to keep them in the dry
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turn tables over the top of them to use them as an umbrella. But I think one of the coldest worst days I ever remember
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was in the Pet Canyon and it was probably minus five minus six
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And the wind blowing about 40 water barrel was froze solid. And
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uh, I remember thinking I need to make some coffee. So I just get an old butcher knife and just go around and I just
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go to chopping ice to fill a coffee pot up and we make coffee that way because when you start this job
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you finish the job, you
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gotta get this kit. You
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know, I've had a lot of guests come into camp two legged, four legged
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some no legged. The no legged ones was the one really that I worried about
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And that's some old rattlesnakes. I can remember one morning down there on Turkey Creek
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Old Chris Morton, dear friend of mine, he had always knew he could come early for coffee and he'd come over about 330
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We'd sit there, drink coffee, turn the lantern off or nobody else would bother us. And as quiet as it could be that morning
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And, uh, I remember hearing that sound that just a little old rattle
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Chris looked over at me and he said, you think that's rattlesnake
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I said, yeah, he said, where do you think you at? And I said, somewhere between me and you and he said
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why don't you get up and get the flashlight? See if you can find him. I said, why don't you get up and see if
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you can find me? So I told him, I said, let's just sit here
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let him crawl on through camp, just let him go. Well, here in a minute
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we couldn't hear him no more. And I lit the lantern and there's no sandy place where we was camping and you could see his
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track in that sand. He'd crawled between my chair and Chris's chair later on that day after it warmed up a little
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he come out of that wood pile. He was hors d'oeuvres that night. Well
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breakfast is a done deal and the cowboys rode out in the dark this morning
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They did. So, first thing you do is you got to clean up, wash all the dishes
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But then after that, we really clean the iron, make sure that everything is really good
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resea, all the iron and, uh, make sure you got enough wood
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cut some wood up if you need some kindling. But after that, you get to thinking what's for lunch
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You know, there's a little prep that goes in there. But usually if Shannon on a ranch and we have breakfast like at five or
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530 cowboys go off. We have the dishes washed, we go back TP and we take a nap for two hours and then get up
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start over. You have to figure out how to get that sleep in. But today is a little different
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We did have about an hour and a half of downtime really before we started back because we have to take lunch to cowboys today
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So it's sort of a grab and go blue plate special today with some cowboy sloppy and some brownies
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You know, there, there's a lot of ranches that I've been on that, um, at least maybe three times in a three week gathering or
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something like that, that you would have to take lunch to a set of pants where they were working cattle because it really wasn't feasible
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for them to go work cattle and then come 17 miles back to where you were and then go 17 miles back
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So I'd usually try to fix something that I could rewarm on a fire up there on a bright in or something like that
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Bring a dessert, bring a cornbread, bring it as, uh, brownies, something like that
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And you could have it for the cowboys and that way it didn't really interrupt that schedule
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took a little more time out of my day to get it all put together and take it somewhere
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But hey, that's what it's about. Uh, when you hire them to feed them, you gotta feed them anywhere
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They're at, we finished up wrapped up in the lunch box. The yeti is going to the top of the mountain to see the cowboys
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fall works is over. I mean, they have brought the cattle down from the mountains
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They have got them where they need to be and it is family night at the wagon
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This is a tradition that has went on as long as I've been cooking when the fall works were over
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All the family members come out, the wives, the Children and of all the cowboys
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you invite all the guests Hey, we're gonna feed about 40 tonight. But this is what it's all about
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This is cowboy heritage. This is the way it's meant to be. But folks
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y'all are family to us too. We couldn't make it without you. We on each and every one of you to watch these videos and
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hey, the great state of Wyoming, we just glad to be here. But hey, I ask you to just come on in here real close
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because what we're gonna tip our hat to all the service, men and women and all the veterans that have kept that flag flying over
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camp. Rest of you. Come on in here. Get close now because this is family night
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I'm gonna give you a family hug. God bless you each and every one and we'll see you down the road
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I always used to tell people why, why did they ask why you don't get up so early
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I said nobody's had time to mess up the day yet. It's dark. You know, this is
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this is mine and, and God's time
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