~ Tall Timbers ~ Recipe

How to make it

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• Add all the ingredients except the rolled brisket,bring to boil,then simmer for a few minutes,turn off heat and allow to completely become cold,put the the brisket in an non metallic container,cover with the cold mixture,weight down the brisket,cover,and leave in fridge for seven days,turning about every day,once ready,rinse and soak overnight in fresh water.Then put beef in a sturdy cooking container with a couple of cut up carrots,onions,a stick of celery,and a few cloves garlic,and one bouquet garni,simmer gently for about three hours.
• ~ Hot Cranberry Tea...If You Please ~
• Mix together,and boil gently for about ten minutes,one quart of cranberry juice with one six ounce frozen lemonaide,one six ounce frozen orange juice,one package red hots,one stick of cinnamon,twelve cloves,and two cups sugar,strain and store in the cold,add one cup of mixture to two cups of water and heat through.
• ~ Apple Pie...My Favorite...Well,that and Bread Pudding ~
• Apple pie has been prepared with it's bubbling hot center of sugary,appley,goodness as the pie bird is singing away you place a small mound of vanilla brandy flavored snow ice cream atop the peak of your pie piece.
• ~ Throwing Caution To The Wind...Who Ever Heard of New Years Resolutions ~
• 4 eggs,beaten in a bowl with one cup sugar,and two teaspoons homemade vanilla and four cups milk added and beaten severely,stir in one and one half loaves of white bread,cubed,plus six tablespoons drunk raisins,to which you have soaked in bourbon,place mixture in greased pans,and sprinkle tops with one fourth cup sugar each,bake in a three hundred fifty degree oven for thirty minutes,or until the bread pudding has risen to top of pans,meantime you will cream three fourth cup of sugar,three egg yolks,and three tablespoons of fresh country butter in a pan,stir in two tablespoons cornstarch that has been dissolved in one fourth cup water,slowly addd one and one half cups of boiling water,and cook over hot water until thickened,stirring constantly,add the homemade vanilla and a pinch of salt,then remove from heat,serve the bread pudding,topped with warm butter sauce.
• ~ The winter is so cold that the words freeze in mid-air ~
• ...but,the fantastic tales were made up around the camp fire and on the long winter evening...ancient forests,untouched woodlands...we have no ownership on these mountain tops here...merely caretakers.
• Who would have thought that those towering cathedrals for centuries,could and 'wood' topple,so paper could meet pen.
• He may not have carved the Grand Canyon,or,built the Rocky Mountains,or,created the majestic Pines,nor the enormous Oaks,but there did arise a phenomenon symbol of America power.
• The morning was a blustering blizzard and the buckwheat pan cakes,with melted country butter running a creamy river into the warm maple syrup,a small clutch of Pheasant eggs over easy,crispy hashbrowns with a dash of wild chives,a small rare flank steak and coffee sweeten with brown sugar was a wonderful welcome.
• Dinner of red horse (salted beef ),horseradish,peeled boiled potatoes,a vail of brown broth,warm steaming rolls,a plate of fresh greens,cranberry tea,a hot apple pie with a mound of snow ice cream on top.
• Later...Snifter of Brandy to shake off the shivers.
• One can not master the mysteriously,majestic,mistic,mountains,only to unfold the stories untold.
• ~ Contemplation of Spring ~
• How refreshingly inviting,playfully peaceful,stable,strudy,strong,pure natural power of youthfully renewed tranquility,a sense of center in balance of the scenic,an easy on the eyes escapism,breathes grand grace in the deeply inspiring independence of intelligence in it's making,a restful silence in contemplation of the new,an endorphin rush...sweet music to my eyes...look at a dew drop on a misty morn balanced on a green leaf and tell me it doesn't touch your soul,and fills it with...LIFE!
• ~ Nature...In the Natural...You Take Care of It...It Will Take Care of You ~