Cooking Demo this weekend near Filley Newbrassky (Pictures added)

[Delmonico]

I know there are not a lot of you on the board near me, but in case there is anyone and would like to see one, I will be out for my last one this weekend.  I missed two in June because of my surgery and one in Aug because Lemol thought for a while he wanted to come early.

Any way I will be at the Elija Filley Stone Barn Harvest featable near Filley Newbrassky. This is about 10 miles from Beatrice Newbrassky and about 45 from Lincoln.  I can't get the Google map to copy for me, but if anyone is interested PM me and I'll get you instructions on how to get there.

This 3 story stone barn was built in 1873 and is on the National Historic Register, the other demo's are mostly old time farm demo's with activities for the kids.



I will not leave till early Sat morning so if anyone in my area is interested or if you want to travel a bit one can see what farm life was like in the late 19th and early 20th Century.  I will be portraying an old time threshing crew cook rather than my usual cowboy cook.   I will be cooking for about 50 folks who are demonstrating down there both Sat and Sun.

The Chef himself last year.

[Delmonico]

If anyone was coming on Sunday, don't was wet and I fed 50 people today, but we cancled out the cooking tomorow due to more heavy rain likely.

[Delmonico]

Just got through working with some of my pictures so I'll post some of the so those who like to wade in the mud see what they missed out on.   Sorry the pictures ain't better, it was a dark and damp day.

This one was about 10 am when I had just got the fire started, cobs and coal oil help.



Looking the other direction toward the road.



I ended up cheating a bit with the fire, had trouble even getting matches to stay lit, so I used some of those for tinder and cheated a bit.



After a few minutes the fire started real good.



I learned some things about working on cold wet ground yesterday, but I'm going to do a seperate post about that later.

By the time I got the fire going I had already built up a bit of mud.



A couple shots of the gear all set out ready to use and the large cob pile I put a big dent in.




By 3 pm I had 9 ovens load of food going.



We were shooting to eat at 5 pm and at 4:55 we started hauling the ovens to the barn since we had decided to eat there out of the wind.

The first picture is pot roast and a chicken and rice dish.



The next one is the bread, it was so humid I never got the dough the way I wanted, so instead of my usual "dinner rolls" it was like a large drop biscuit and we just broke it up.  Yes I burnt it a bit on top, when it was ready to bake I was a few minutes short on coals so when it baked it rose enough to touch the top of the lid, plus I had a lot of cobs in the fire and they burn hotter and faster than wood, I don't get these a lot to use so it takes some getting used to.



The next two are peach cobbler, I used a yeast crust on it also and had a bit of the same problem,  plus ther was a lot of brown sugar on top of the crust.





A shot of our serving line.



And a couple of folks eating.

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[Trinity]

Good thing I've got plastic down over the keyboard.     Looks like some good eats!

[Silver Creek Slim]

Great pictures, Del. I wish I could of made it even with the rain.

Slim

[Pitspitr]

I'm drooling just thinking of the '08 GAF muster.

[Delmonico]

I'm drooling just thinking of the '08 GAF muster.

I'm guessing that means I do something besides salt pork, hardtack and beans?

(Never fear, that would be just plain boring.)