Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:26:30 -0800
Reply-To:     Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Rob <becida@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: Recipe- Chicken Fried Steak was Trip report -- Florida Keys,
              State Parks, and Repairs-
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I can't remember much in the way of recipes for camp food on this
list...  this one for Chicken Fried Steak sounds great!

For a list like this I think recipes have a place... Thanks Dave for
putting this one up!

Rob
becida@comcast.net
Let me see if I can write up that one pan rice-bean-meat-vegie that
we did this last trip, the vegies were from a road side stand and the
sausages from a local supermarket lasted the 2 of us several days.



At  1/26/2011 06:37 AM, Dave Mcneely wrote:
>Since this is camp food prepared in or near a VW camper, I assume it
>is legit for commentary.  Both my parents were cooks in Texas diners
>in the 1940s and 1950s.

>The original cfs was a piece of thin cut round steak, tenderized
>with a steak hammer, salted and generously peppered, dredged in
>flour (no eggs, or other contaminants, milk MIGHT be allowed), and
>quickly fried in a pan or on a grill in fat that did not cover the
>steak, one side, then flipped and finished.

>This is written by the son of two old time Texan diner cooks.
>mcneely