Captain Jeff; or, frontier life in Texas with the Texas Rangers Page: 32
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32 CAPTAIN JEFF, OR
enough of the buck for him a square meal when he was waked at
twelve o'clock, whereupon he stretched himself on his downy couch,
and was in the land of forgetfulness in two minutes.
Ah, Sleep! Sleep, sweet sleep! What a boon to us mortals!
The iron will, the nerve of steel must succumb in the absence of its
life and health-giving influence!
While Captain Jeff sleeps to gain strength for any emergency
that might arise, and all the rest are put on guard or picket duty
except two, who are detailed to cook, let us take a peep into how
Texas Rangers can cook good bread and get up a good meal without
any semblance of a cooking vessel.
The first our cooks do is to make a good fire out of dry wood,
and while it is burning down into good coals, they proceeded to
strip the hide off the buck; they then wash all the blood off the hide
and hang it up for a few minutes to drip. They then spread it down
and put the flour, salt and soda in sufficient quantities to make
it light and pliable, they then cut up fine a quantity of the inside
fat and put in sufficient water and knead it well, using the hide
as a bread pan. They then get some nice straight sticks three or
four feet long, the size of a man's thumb, peel off the bark, sharpen
one end. They then take some of the dough and wrap it around
the blunt end of the stick for one foot in length or more, and stick
the sharp end in the ground leaning it the proper angle over the
fire, so it will cook to a finish, the inside fat that was cut up in
the flour equally distributed the grease all through the read
and better bread could not be cooked anywhere or in anyway. They
cook the meat with the same stick process, only both end of the
stick are sharpened and the stick is forced half way through the
piece of meat and the sharp ends of the stick alternately lurked
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Maltby, William Jeff. Captain Jeff; or, frontier life in Texas with the Texas Rangers, book, 1906; Colorado, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth33010/m1/32/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Star of the Republic Museum.