How to Host a CowboyTea Party

Round up some friends.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

1. Set up the location.
   An ideal setting would be a bunch of logs to sit on around a camp fire. If it's winter time, gather everyone in a log cabin with a wood burning stove.

2. Get some dishes.
   You're going to need a couple blue speckled enamel ware coffee pots, and some tin or enamel wear cups. For the food, you'll need a grill, and a cast iron dutch oven.

3. Invite your cowboys.
   Tell them to come in their best Sunday Come to meeting hats and boots. Bolo ties and special occasion belt buckles are optional.

4. 

   Make some biscuits.
   The best ones are made in a dutch oven over a fire. Hungry cow boys aren't going to want food. While you're at it throw a little something else on the fire there like a pot of beans, and some barbeque.

5. Make some tea and cowboy coffee.
   While it is a tea party, cowboys are going to want the option of coffee, and coffee simmered over an open fire is legendarily good, so it would be a shame not to make some on the side.

6. Offer milk.
   If anyone wants milk in their tea. (Must be an English cowboy). Tell them to go find a cow with a full udder and milk her into their tea cup.

7. Put out some molasses.
   Sugar's hard to come by on the range, but every good chuck wagon has a bottle of molasses.

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on 6/5/2009 Very interesting. Thanks