Trail Drive Apple Pie

Back in the early days of the old west cowboys drove cattle north in an effort to get better prices for their cattle. This drive sometimes would take several months to accomplish, it was long hard days of work, traveling with these cowboys was a chuck wagon and a cook to provide meals for these hard workers. Many of these cooks had a specialy that they fixed often, a cook that could make Apple Pie was rated up there like a god. so here is a basic frontier trail drive recipe for apple pie.

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The pie crust was a simple affair, consisting of flour, salt. water and what ever fat was avilable

(today we use shortening) but the trail drive cooks mostly had "Bacon Grease" as the only available "Shortening" so that was what was used, as for apple filling dried apples was the only apples they traveled with, they would boil these apples with sugar to re-constitute the apple when this was done they would roll out the pie crust add filling to 1/2 of the crust and the fold it over crimp the edges and fry this in a large cast iron pan with more "Bacon Grease" until the crust was brown. Now the cook was a hero. Also the"Fried Pie was born.

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Since I don't use "Bacon Grease " in anything. When I get a hankering for apple pie I use the following Recipe:

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5 med apple. sliced or diced

2 cups slenda

1 tbs allspice

1/2 cup dried cranberries

1/4 cup walnuts

1/2 cup applesauce

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Mix these ingredients together and place in a baking dish.(non-stick spray)

top off with a few drop bisquits that has added nutmeg and slenda.

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Bisquit topping:

1 cup Jiffy mix.

1/2 cup splenda.

1/2 tbs nutmeg

1/4 cup water

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mix these ingredients togather using a soup spoon size spoon, add a few of these spoonfulls of dough to the top of the apples and bake at 350-400 degrees until the apples bubble and tender up. Enjoy

.Now thats better than a cowboy fried pie