From: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com (hist_text-digest) To: hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #759 Reply-To: hist_text Sender: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-hist_text-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk hist_text-digest Saturday, March 3 2001 Volume 01 : Number 759 In this issue: -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       MtMan-List: history, but not RMFT -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       Re: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber -       Re: MtMan-List: history, but not RMFT -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       MtMan-List: List Moderator - OT -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan -       MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease -       Re: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: jerky -       Re: MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 22:57:23 -0700 From: "Thomas Ballstaedt" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C0A2A2.FA668BC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I made a set of those copper canister kettles they work great cost me = all of 5.00 [picked up the canisters at the local second hand store] = money well spent. the middle size is just about the right to fit in a saddle bag ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Roger Lahti=20 To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com=20 Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:41 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan Roadkill, =20 You can get by with what ever pot you have. Most of the pots used = during that time were either straight sided or slightly flared. A big = coffee can or smaller one is easily converted by putting a couple anchor = points on opposite sides and bending some heavy wire between them. A = fella could make a nice nesting set using different sizes of tin cans up = to the largest coffee can made. Cut a couple fittings for the sides in = the shape of an upside down "T". Drill a hole in the leg of the "T" and = a couple smaller ones in each "arm". Rivet the "T" upside down to the = sides on both sides of the pot and spread the legs out a bit. Bend some = grape wire for a handle and there you have it. You can also covert a = copper "canister" (originally used for holding dry ingredients like = sugar, coffee, etc. into a nice boiler complete with lid for next to = nothing. It will probably be stainless steel on the inside but it will = get you started. =20 My group makes coffee and tea in whatever pot we have available. = Ranging from small to fairly large straight sided boilers. Most of them = are made of copper but sheet iron/tin works fine. My largest pot (one = that I made of copper sheet) holds a bit less than a gallon, is used to = boil drinking water and to make enough coffee for a half dozen guys. I = use smaller copper pots (that I make) when there is just a couple/three = of us.=20 =20 You don't need a fancy tapered pot with a spout though they were = available back east and may have seen their way west. I am sure most = coffee and tea was brewed up in a simple pot, whatever was handy. It's = nice to have a lid but not necessary. =20 Capt. Lahti' ----- Original Message -----=20 From: MarkLoader@aol.com=20 To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com=20 Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 7:11 PM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan I am looking for the proper style and material for a coffee pot that = would=20 have been used during the RMFT at a large brigade camp and where is = the bet=20 place to get one.=20 Thanks "Roadkill"=20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C0A2A2.FA668BC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I made a set of those copper canister = kettles they=20 work great cost me all of 5.00 [picked up the canisters at the local = second hand=20 store] money well spent.
the middle size is just about the = right  to=20 fit in a saddle bag
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 Roger=20 Lahti
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com =
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 = 10:41=20 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee = pot or=20 pan

Roadkill,
 
You can get by with what ever pot you have. Most = of the pots=20 used during that time were either straight sided or slightly flared. A = big=20 coffee can or smaller one is easily converted by putting a couple = anchor=20 points on opposite sides and bending some heavy wire between them. A = fella=20 could make a nice nesting set using different sizes of tin cans up to = the=20 largest coffee can made. Cut a couple fittings for the sides in the = shape of=20 an upside down "T". Drill a hole in the leg of the "T" and a couple = smaller=20 ones in each "arm". Rivet the "T" upside down to the sides on both = sides of=20 the pot and spread the legs out a bit. Bend some grape wire for a = handle and=20 there you have it. You can also covert a copper "canister" (originally = used=20 for holding dry ingredients like sugar, coffee, etc. into a nice = boiler=20 complete with lid for next to nothing. It will probably be stainless = steel on=20 the inside but it will get you started.
 
My group makes coffee and tea in whatever pot we = have=20 available. Ranging from small to fairly large straight sided boilers. = Most of=20 them are made of copper but sheet iron/tin works fine. My largest pot = (one=20 that I made of copper sheet) holds a bit less than a gallon, is used = to boil=20 drinking water and to make enough coffee for a half dozen guys. I use = smaller=20 copper pots (that I make)  when there is just a couple/three = of us.=20
 
You don't need a fancy tapered pot with a spout = though they=20 were available back east and may have seen their way west. I am sure = most=20 coffee and tea was brewed up in a simple pot, whatever was handy. It's = nice to=20 have a lid but not necessary.
 
Capt. Lahti'
----- Original Message -----
From:=20 MarkLoader@aol.com
To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com =
Sent: Thursday, March 01, = 2001 7:11=20 PM
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: = Coffee pot or=20 pan

I am = looking for the=20 proper style and material for a coffee pot that would
have been = used=20 during the RMFT at a large brigade camp and where is the bet =
place to=20 get one.
Thanks "Roadkill"=20 - ------=_NextPart_000_0011_01C0A2A2.FA668BC0-- - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:36:23 -0600 From: "House Todorovich" Subject: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber Hi Yall, (if ya don't speak southern then: Hello all,) Is this an acceptable manner of posting to this list, if not please correct me. Also can someone inform me about the rendevzous in Alabama, as I live here in Northern Alabama, and hope to be able to attend. Some short background: Born in 1959 in West Virginia near Beckley, moved south with parents in 1970. Graduate University Alabama in Huntsville 1982, Masters program and continuing ed. since then. Married, three kids 2 boys and 1 girl. Enjoy hunting, history, and technology. Constitutionalist, Christian, and Capitalist. I have never bought a ready built black powder gun, except some starting kit parts from Turner Kirkland's Dixie Gun Works. I am currently working on knapping arrowheads and designing myself a flintlock long rifle. Probably in .50 calabre. I built my first black powder gun in 1973, 1974 from parts that my mom found. A .45 cal. long rifle in percussion. (I was age 13 -14) While it was and is rough it shoots, and has taken game for me. Since then I have built several other guns, and self bows. We also trapped local muscrat for spending money in high school. I still consider myself a tenderfoot in many aspects, but am ardent about these topics. Perhaps I will have things to share from time to time, and am looking forward to reading the posts. While I have not been able to seek out the American Mountian Man membership that I some day hope to be worthy of, I have followed the writhings of members when I could locate them. The computer and internet has been a boon for this. Thanks for being here in cyber space. Highest regards, Jim Todorovich aka DricPa "You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive" - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:30:47 EST From: CTOAKES@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan - --part1_41.8200b84.27d10897_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > covert a copper "canister" (originally used for holding dry ingredients like > sugar, coffee, etc. into a nice boiler > In formal setting such as coffee houses or at dinners at home coffee was served in a "coffee pot" most of which were rather small to make sure you used it up before it got cold. Remember they did not have central heating and they did not have thermos type containers. Coffee was brewed in a pot large enough to serve the amount that was needed and keep warm by the hearth or over the fire. For those new to the use of copper or brass in food pre remember to keep it well scrubbed or you will get the lovely green verdigrie (sp) on the surface and that is poison which can ruin a rather good day. All our copper that we use for cooking is tinned (on the inside) with lead free solder to protect against that problem. Y.M.O.S. C.T. Oakes - --part1_41.8200b84.27d10897_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit


covert a copper "canister" (originally used for holding dry ingredients like
sugar, coffee, etc. into a nice boiler
I am sure most coffee and tea was brewed up in a simple pot


In formal setting such as coffee houses or at dinners at home coffee was
served in a "coffee pot" most of which were rather small to make sure you
used it up before it got cold.  Remember they did not have central heating
and they did not have thermos type containers.   Coffee was brewed in a pot
large enough to serve the amount that was needed and keep warm by the hearth
or over the fire.

For those new to the use of copper or brass in food pre remember to keep it
well scrubbed or you will get the lovely green verdigrie (sp) on the surface
and that is poison which can ruin a rather good day.  All our copper that we
use for cooking is tinned (on the inside) with lead free solder to protect
against that problem.

Y.M.O.S.

C.T. Oakes
- --part1_41.8200b84.27d10897_boundary-- - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 09:08:51 -0600 From: "Lanney Ratcliff" Subject: MtMan-List: history, but not RMFT Ho the list On this date 165 years ago one of my cousins, Thomas Jefferson Rusk along with 58 other men, signed his name to the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico, forming the Republic of Texas. Rusk went on to participate in many famous battles against the Mexicans and later lived a storied life in early Texas. Men like my cousin (and like his grandfather, Benjamin Starritt.... my gggg-grandfather.....who fought in the American Revolution) were willing to risk everything they had, including their very lives, to live in freedom and to pass that legacy of freedom down to us. We can't let them down. We must preserve that freedom and pass it on, intact, to those who come after us. To read more about these men go to Google.com and enter a search for their names. And while you're there search for your own family, using names from every branch of your family tree. You might be surprised at what you find.....like another, lesser cousin of mine who got propelled to his final reward from the Texas electric chair. Every family tree has twigs as well as mighty branches. YMOS Lanney Ratcliff PS: T.J. Rusk is also Larry Pendleton's distant cousin, which makes Pendleton and me cousins. Ouch. - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:20:22 EST From: BrayHaven@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan In a message dated 3/2/2001 9:32:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, CTOAKES@aol.com writes: << All our copper that we use for cooking is tinned (on the inside) with lead free solder to protect against that problem. >> Copper is bad for you (as you mentioned). drinking water stds call for <1ppm and now they're sayin tin is bad for you as well. TBTO (and other tin compounds) has now been banned as a paint additive for marine use (water pollution). Iron is about the only thing I haven't heard any health negatives about. Greg Sefton - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 10:23:02 -0800 From: "Roger Lahti" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber - ----- Original Message ----- From: "House Todorovich" To: Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 10:36 PM Subject: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber > Hi Yall, (if ya don't speak southern then: Hello all,) > > Is this an acceptable manner of posting to this list, if not please correct > me. Also can someone inform me about the rendevzous in Alabama, as I live > here in Northern Alabama, and hope to be able to attend. DricPa, Greetings and welcome. Your post is just fine. While we don't stand on ceremony here it is nice when one uses the best english prose at their command just to facilitate readability. (while I love hearing the various accents and etc., they are hard to read but that is my personal preference). You might also want to consider joining another list "MLML" if you haven't already. "MLML" is devoted to muzzle loading exclusively and has a much larger audience. It will be easier to find out what shooting events are going on in your area and you might even find people close at hand to participate with. The link is below, just follow the directions: http://members.aol.com/illinewek By all means continue your persuit of membership in AMM. It is by invitation and sponsorship so you will have to make yourself visible and show your willingness and worthyness. Good luck. Capt. Lahti' - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:20:02 EST From: LivingInThePast@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: history, but not RMFT In a message dated 3/2/01 7:08:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, amm1585@hyperusa.com writes: << T.J. Rusk is also Larry Pendleton's distant cousin, which makes Pendleton and me cousins. Ouch. >> not quite sure who deserves my condolences! Barney - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 13:22:00 EST From: LivingInThePast@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan In a message dated 3/2/01 7:21:49 AM Pacific Standard Time, BrayHaven@aol.com writes: << Iron is about the only thing I haven't heard any health negatives about. >> and so how do you tin with Iron? Given the amount of time most of us spend using tin-lined vessels, does anybody think there is a great risk to us? Barney - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 18:08:09 -0500 From: "Addison Miller" Subject: MtMan-List: List Moderator - OT My apologies to the List Moderator for haviong to change my email. Briernet is down and I have missed 3 days of messages, and many emails have bounced back to friends. Again, my apologies Ad Miller Alderson, WV - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 17:37:58 -0700 From: "Thomas Ballstaedt" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan the copper cannisters I made my nest of pots out of, are actually stainless steel with a copper plating on the outside. and no it is'nt period correct but it will have to suffice until I can replace it with a proper set Tom - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 8:20 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan > In a message dated 3/2/2001 9:32:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, CTOAKES@aol.com > writes: > > << All our copper that we > use for cooking is tinned (on the inside) with lead free solder to protect > against that problem. > >> > > Copper is bad for you (as you mentioned). drinking water stds call for <1ppm > and now they're sayin tin is bad for you as well. TBTO (and other tin > compounds) has now been banned as a paint additive for marine use (water > pollution). Iron is about the only thing I haven't heard any health > negatives about. > Greg Sefton > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 20:48:42 -0800 From: "larry pendleton" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Coffee pot or pan and no it is'nt period correct but it will have to suffice until I can replace it with a proper set Tom >>Tom, Don't sweat it ! I and many others started out with a boiler fashioned from a coffee can. Nobody was ever born wearing braintan. We all had to start with what we could cobble together. Pendleton - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 00:26:01 -0500 From: "CrookedHand" Subject: MtMan-List: jerky Does any body here have a recipe or instructions for making jerky over an open fire????? you can reply off list if you wish. Mark "Crooked Hand" Toigo /aka/ Wethlee-Enké http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/8699 http://members.nbci.com/crookedhand/gallery.htm - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 22:07:57 -0800 From: "Roger Lahti" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky Crooked Hand, From what I have read, you just cut the meat in long strips with the grain and drape it over a pole above the smoke of the fire. No heat is really involved. Crawdad and I jerked some buffalo at the AMM Nationals a couple years back by just hanging it on ropes around camp. Dried out in a couple days. Capt. Lahti' - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 01:52:22 -0500 From: "CrookedHand" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky thanks Roger... what about flies? we got cows and horses and goats.. duh.... will the smoke keep them off the meat.. and how long does the fire/smoke method take/ Mark "Crooked Hand" Toigo /aka/ Wethlee-Enké http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/8699 http://members.nbci.com/crookedhand/gallery.htm - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Lahti" To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 1:07 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky > Crooked Hand, > > From what I have read, you just cut the meat in long strips with the grain > and drape it over a pole above the smoke of the fire. No heat is really > involved. > > Crawdad and I jerked some buffalo at the AMM Nationals a couple years back > by just hanging it on ropes around camp. Dried out in a couple days. > > Capt. Lahti' > > > > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html > - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 02:04:53 EST From: LivingInThePast@aol.com Subject: MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease Since we have lots of hunters on the list, I thought I'd throw this out... The TV show 20/20 had a segment tonight about Mad Cow Disease, and one of the so called experts from the Ag Dept. said that a form of it, called Chronic Wasting Disease was already in the United States infecting Elk and Deer in the Western US. Anybody have any more info? Don't wanna give up Caribou sausage or Venison steaks, but don't wanna end up on the ground doin' the chicken either. Barney - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 01:22:16 -0800 From: Lee Newbill Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Question from new subsciber Welcome Tod A few y'alls are nice to hear... don't hear that many since planting myself in the great Northwest, and folks still look at me funny once in a while when they hear 'em. Regards from Idaho Lee Newbill House Todorovich wrote: > Hi Yall, (if ya don't speak southern then: Hello all,) > Is this an acceptable manner of posting to this list - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 08:29:27 EST From: BrayHaven@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky In a message dated 3/3/2001 1:35:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, chand@alltel.net writes: << thanks Roger... what about flies? we got cows and horses and goats.. duh.... will the smoke keep them off the meat.. and how long does the fire/smoke method take/ >> Hunting in Alaska & Canada, we learned that a little pepper would keep flies off hanging meat. Kept the grizzlies off it too. They fed on the carcass of butchered moose every night but left the meat (peppered) hanging nearby alone. I put pepper on my jerky anyway. We could hear them out there crunching the bones. Made for light sleeping :o). Probably the way the skinners did back when. Greg Sefton - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:17:45 -0500 From: "CrookedHand" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky hmmmmmmm a light sleeper I am... no grizzlies here, but LOTS Of coyotes in north Florida.. REALLY... now, how LONG do you smoke the stuff Mark "Crooked Hand" Toigo /aka/ Wethlee-Enké http://www.geocities.com/Yosemite/Rapids/8699 http://members.nbci.com/crookedhand/gallery.htm - ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:29 AM Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky > In a message dated 3/3/2001 1:35:46 AM Eastern Standard Time, > chand@alltel.net writes: > > << thanks Roger... what about flies? we got cows and horses and goats.. > duh.... > will the smoke keep them off the meat.. and how long does the fire/smoke > method take/ >> > > Hunting in Alaska & Canada, we learned that a little pepper would keep flies > off hanging meat. Kept the grizzlies off it too. They fed on the carcass of > butchered moose every night but left the meat (peppered) hanging nearby > alone. I put pepper on my jerky anyway. We could hear them out there > crunching the bones. Made for light sleeping :o). Probably the way the > skinners did back when. > > Greg Sefton > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:15:11 EST From: BrayHaven@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky In a message dated 3/3/2001 9:01:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, chand@alltel.net writes: << hmmmmmmm a light sleeper I am... no grizzlies here, but LOTS Of coyotes in north Florida.. REALLY... now, how LONG do you smoke the stuff >> OK, I admit it, I use my dehydrator for 7 hours. Only documentation I have is the receipt from Walmart. I have dried jerkey (venison) in the woods but we made a little containment out of palmetto fronds to direct the smoke & dry air. I think we got hungry and ate the stuff before it was properly jerked after about 6 hours. Seems it was getting close but should have been dried another few hours. Smoked fish this way too. Greg - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 07:32:40 -0700 From: Mike Moore Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky Crooked Hand, In camps, we have done this and found that the preparation of the process (how you do it) to be more important than how you do the meat. The easiest way it to build a rack out of green sticks about four - six inches off the fire. We usually use four forked sticks as corner posts and then lay stickes over it to make a grill. Keep the fire low (if you can't keep your hand over it, it is too hot). The meat should be cut thin, to dry faster, but we have used thicknesses up to 3/8 inch and it still work, just takes longer and the outside will get done but the inside still alittle raw. Lean meat is the best. If in a primitive camp, we don't meranade the meat or add salt or pepper, just plain. I think this it the best way, you can then use it in many different foods and the meat won't pass on any flavor but it's own to the mix. Or make you thirsty when eating it. Turn the meat regualrly and keep the dogs away. If bugs are a problem in your area, make the fire smoky and this will help. I am used to doing this in the rockys, and the humility is pretty low here (maybe 8-10%), so can't help with any ideas for doing this in a high humility area. Roger is right, most meat will dry on by it's self in a few days, but by using a small fire you can speed up the process. Most of the time in camp you can do a good batch in about 4 hours. It does take some one watching the fire during this time, but they usually get to do the taste testing! mike. Oh, many people don't know what to do with all the hard, small bits of old (who knows how old) jerky that always ends up in the bottom of the jerky bag. This is the perfect stuff for the winter trail food. Why spend the time and the effort to pound up jerky for pemmican? You already have it. Roger Lahti wrote: > Crooked Hand, > > >From what I have read, you just cut the meat in long strips with the grain > and drape it over a pole above the smoke of the fire. No heat is really > involved. > > Crawdad and I jerked some buffalo at the AMM Nationals a couple years back > by just hanging it on ropes around camp. Dried out in a couple days. > > Capt. Lahti' > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 07:37:04 -0700 From: Mike Moore Subject: Re: MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease Barney, The Denver Rocky Mountain News has done some very good articles on this lately. We have a area near Ft. Collins which a special hunt is being done this year to help control it. I feel this is something we need to be aware of. I saw some pictures four years ago of a deer shot by a friend (to put it out of it's misery), he reported it to the DOW and they came and took it to check out then. I might still have the articles, if the recycling hasn't went out yet. Let me know if I can get them to you. mike. LivingInThePast@aol.com wrote: > Since we have lots of hunters on the list, I thought I'd throw this out... > The TV show 20/20 had a segment tonight about Mad Cow Disease, and one of the > so called experts from the Ag Dept. said that a form of it, called Chronic > Wasting Disease was already in the United States infecting Elk and Deer in > the Western US. Anybody have any more info? Don't wanna give up Caribou > sausage or Venison steaks, but don't wanna end up on the ground doin' the > chicken either. Barney > > ---------------------- > hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 09:53:37 -0500 From: "Tim Jewell" Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky - ----- Original Message ----- From: "CrookedHand" >... now, how LONG do you smoke the stuff Hey Crooked Hand, "Proper" jerky is not smoked or seasoned at all. Hanging it over a fire is so the little bit of heat and smoke will keep bugs away. Use a *tough* cut of meat to start (I use round roast) with as little fat as you can possibly get. Cut it with the grain and about 1/4" thick. Season or marinate if you want but that is not *traditional*. Sun dry for about 8-10 hours or you can also do it in an oven by hanging the strips on toothpicks. Set oven on lowest temperature and prop the door open to let the moisture escape. Remember you are drying not cooking. Either way start checking it after about 6 hours. It should look like *sole* leather, dark in color and somewhat flexible. Actually, without seasoning it tastes about like sole leather too. BTW, if you want the smoke flavor without actually smoking it you can buy "liquid smoke" seasoning and if you are smoking it over a fire remember not to use a resinous wood. Hope this helps, Tim - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 08:18:31 -0800 From: Randal J Bublitz Subject: Re: MtMan-List: jerky Mike, You impressed me as a pretty humble man........ "the humility is pretty low here (maybe 8-10%), so can't help with any ideas for doing this in a high humility area." hardtack - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 11:21:17 EST From: MarkLoader@aol.com Subject: Re: MtMan-List: OT : Mad Cow / Chronic Wasting Disease - --part1_92.111896cb.27d273fd_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I live in the center of the main Chronic Wasting Disease Area. I t started as a project at CSU about two miles from me. A couple of infected deer escaped from pens on the West Campus and it has spread from their. The main area is now east of the foot hills (about 6500 feet) to I-25 north of Fort Collins to the Wyoming border. The Colorado Division Of Wildlife has just finished a special hunting season for this area CDOW Unit 9 (west of I-25 north of US 287 south of the Wyoming Border) Hunter could harvest as many deer as privet land owners want them to of either sex. The season ended the end of February. Deer heads were to be turned in the CDOW for test of the brain to determine if the deer had CWD. "There is no evidence that chronic wasting disease affects human, but the Division of Wildlife advises hunters to take simple precautions when handling the carcass of any deer or elk harvested in the units where CWD occurs. "Were rubber gloves when field dressing Carcasses, minimize handling brain pr spinal tissues and wash hands afterwards." This years hunting application just received lists 12 other units in north central Colo. that may have CWD. Average infected rates range from 3% to 15% in eight units (8, 9, 19, 20, 95, 96, 191, 951) with unit 9 being the highest. It is no longer required to return heads for testing. Keep out of the rut "Roadkill" Mark Loader - --part1_92.111896cb.27d273fd_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I live in the center of the main Chronic Wasting Disease Area.  I t started
as a project at CSU about two miles from me.  A couple of infected deer
escaped from pens on the West Campus and it has spread from their.  The main
area is now east of the foot hills (about 6500 feet) to I-25 north of Fort
Collins to the Wyoming border.  The Colorado Division Of Wildlife has just
finished a special hunting season for this area CDOW Unit 9 (west of I-25
north of US 287 south of the Wyoming Border) Hunter could harvest as many
deer as privet land owners want them to of either sex.  The season ended the
end of February.  Deer heads were to be turned in the CDOW for test of the
brain to determine if the deer had CWD.  "There is no evidence that chronic
wasting disease affects human, but the Division of Wildlife advises hunters
to take simple precautions when handling the carcass of any deer or elk
harvested in the units where CWD occurs.  "Were rubber gloves when field
dressing Carcasses, minimize handling brain pr spinal tissues and wash hands
afterwards."  This years hunting application just received lists 12 other
units in north central Colo. that may have CWD.  Average infected rates range
from 3% to 15% in eight units (8, 9, 19, 20, 95, 96, 191, 951) with unit 9
being the highest.  It is no longer required to return heads for testing.  
Keep out of the rut "Roadkill" Mark Loader - --part1_92.111896cb.27d273fd_boundary-- - ---------------------- hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html ------------------------------ End of hist_text-digest V1 #759 ******************************* - To unsubscribe to hist_text-digest, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe hist_text-digest" in the body of the message.