Ranch Recipes: Pie Crust

November 10th, 2011
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Thanksgiving is just around the corner. If you’re looking for the perfect pie crust recipe, check out our T Cross favorite!

 

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1 cup butter

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 cup cold water

1 tsp. vinegar

 

Directions:

Prepare all the dry ingredients (flour, baking powder) and mix together in a bowl. Cut in butter–add butter to dry ingredients, then use a simple butter knife and cut through the butter until it is mixed into the flour. Add cold water and vinegar. Knead dough gently. The key to flaky pie crust is to knead the dough as little as possible.

Roll dough out until it is just bigger than your pie dish. Place dough in greased dish with excess dough hanging off the edge. Be sure to dock the dough with a fork before adding filling.

Now add your choice of filling. If your pie has dough on top and bottom, roll out the second dough disk and place it over the filling. Now pinch the excess dough together.

Bake at 375 degrees until crust is light brown. Enjoy!

This recipe is enough for one pie if crust is on top as well as bottom, or two pies if top is open.

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Cook Story: A City Slicker in the Kitchen

September 18th, 2011
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Check out this humorous article written by Rowan Jacobsen: winner of the James Beard Award, author of Shadows on the Gulf: a Journey Through Our Last Great Wetland, and … former T Cross cook.

 

Read about his memorable and laughable buffalo stew experience on our favorite dude ranch! View the full article by clicking on the image below. Trust me, it’ll keep you chuckling for hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Ranch Recipes: No Bake Cookies

September 11th, 2011
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Here is one cookie recipe that will make you famous at your next family gathering. Straight from the T Cross kitchen, enjoy this chocolaty, peanut buttery, oatmeally goodness.

 

Ingredients:

1 cube butter

2 cups sugar

1/2 cup milk

2 Tbsp. cocoa

1/2 cup peanut butter

4 cups oatmeal

1 tsp. vanilla

 

Instructions:


Heat the butter until melted, then add sugar, milk, and cocoa. Stir until mixture reaches boiling point and sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat. Add peanut butter, oatmeal, and vanilla (if you are really daring, add an extra heaping scoop of peanut butter). Stir until mixture is well-blended and peanut butter is melted in completely.

 

 

Spoon cookie-size portions on sheet of wax paper until cool. Enjoy a cookie every five minutes until they are gone. Trust me, self-control is pointless.

 

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Ranch Recipes: Homestyle Buttermilk Pancakes

May 21st, 2011
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Waking up to the smell of a warm breakfast is possibly the best thing in the world. At the T Cross, every morning presents a new favorite.

Today we are sharing our Homestyle Buttermilk Pancake recipe. Enjoy with jam, syrup, or honey.

Ingredients:

1 cup flour

1 Tbsp. baking powder

1 Tbsp. sugar

1/2 tsp. salt

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup buttermilk

1 egg

2 Tbsp oil

Mix flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt. Add water, buttermilk, egg, and oil. Mix until well blended. Let stand 3 minutes while you grease or spray the griddle. You’ll want to heat the griddle or pan between high and medium, it will depend entirely on your stovetop.

Use 1/2 cup measuring cup to scoop out a perfect amount of batter. Pour on heated griddle. Watch for small bubbles to form and pop in the batter. Check often to prevent burning. Flip. Repeat. Enjoy!

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Biscuits from Scratch: Dude Ranch Style

June 14th, 2010
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Ingredient List:

2 cups flour

4 tsp. baking powder

1/2 tsp. cream of tartar

1/2 tsp. salt

2 Tbsp. sugar

1/2 cup shortening or butter

2/3 cup milk

1 egg

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 450 degrees.

Add all the dry ingredients in a bowl and mix. Cut in shortening. This means you add the shortening to the dry ingredients and with a butter knife cut the shortening into tiny pieces (by doing so the shortening should be mixed well with the dry mix).

Now, add the egg and milk and mix gently. Once the batter holds together and looks more like dough, empty onto a floured surface.

IMPORTANT! Only knead the dough five times! This will guarantee light and flaky biscuits.

Finally, roll out the biscuits to desired thickness.

Use cookie cutters or a biscuit cutter and place shaped dough on a greased cookie sheet.

Place the biscuits close to each other on the tray so they are barely touching.

Once all your dough is shaped, place the cookie sheet in the oven and bake for 10-12 minutes. Let cool for 5-10 minutes. Enjoy with butter or jam.

*From the kitchen of Shauna Colvin, T Cross Cook, 2009.

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