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Decorators from the WOW Flower Project
created wreaths for all the cottages.
After sampling the chili, visitors joined cowboy
singer Michael Tcherkassky at the campfire for
songs and cowboy coffee. Fort Tejon State
Historic Park graciously loaned the museum
their cowboy coffee equipment again this year.
We also want to thank The Feed Store in Lake
LA for loaning hay bales for everyone to sit on,
and Moses Medina of Lake LA for donating the
firewood.
Visitors enjoying cowboy songs around the
camp campfire.
The museum was open throughout the event,
staffed by volunteers Jim Quinn, Michiko
Shimizu, and Darrell Walters and museum
curator Peggy Ronning. Interpreter Jean Rhyne
led a two historical hikes of the museum
complex by flashlight.
Mark your calendars and prepare your chili
recipes. I hope you will join us for Holidays on
the Homestead in December 2018!
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Rose Edwards' Chili
BY MUSEUM CURATOR, PEGGY RONNING
Every year intrepid chili cooks volunteer to
make Rose Edwards' chili from her original
1930s recipe for visitors to try at Holidays on
the Homestead. This historical cooking
recreation is made possible by Elaine
Fetterman, granddaughter of Rose Edwards,
who loaned us her grandmother's cookbooks.
The recipe reminds us how much ingredients
and store inventories have changed since the
1930s. Lard certainly doesn't appear in many
modern recipes in fat-free, gluten-free, vegan
2018. However, the hardest ingredient to find
nowadays is suet. Its most common use in 2018
is to make bird seed cakes to feed
woodpeckers.
Another challenge posed by the recipe is that
it doesn't specify how many beans to use, and
the unit of measurement for the suet and
cayenne is also missing. I am sure that Rose
Edwards would have written more complete
instructions if she had known that total
strangers would cooking her chili at the Indian
Museum 70 years after she lived there!
This year, District Admin Chief Patty Plumlee
and PRMDIA president Margaret Rhyne provided
two different interpretations of Rose Edwards'
chili. Patty's chili was chunkier while Margaret
deviated from the recipe significantly because
she couldn't find suet. While chili tasters
disagree on the chunkiness or spiciness they
prefer, they all agree that chili made with lard
and suet tastes great!
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