2025’s TOP Dinners In The Cabin

These are my favorite (and some of our top viewed) BEST recipes we made in 2025. Cooking out her in this original 1889 homestead shack on the Montana prairie ain’t eaay, but it is memorable.

BISCUITS AND GRAVY—4 old fashioned ways. COWBOY COFFEE, CHEESEMAKING, CRACKERS, RHUBARB SAUCE, WHIPPED RAW CREAM, & NATIVE AMERICAN FRY BREAD.

See the best, most watched recipes we cooked this year. Follow our journey of cooking like the pioneers and our ancestors. What challenges did they face? What can we learn from the old ways?! We restored this house with the goal of making it useful again--Now we cook on the early 1900s wood stove & over the campfire.

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COWBOY VERSIONS:
Chuck Wagon Cowboy "Sinkers" (aka biscuits)
2 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar (optional)
2 tsp baking powder
3 TBS cold lard, smashed fine
Add enough ice cold water to bind the mixture together. DON'T over mix. Cut into circles.
Bake in a hot oven (400-500 degrees) for 10 minutes. Serve steaming hot.

Cowboy "Sop" (aka gravy)
2 TBS bacon grease
2 TBS flour
enough water to get right consistency.
Heat bacon grease in an iron skillet. Add flour. Brown it for 1 minute while stirring. Add water. Mix and stir frequently over heat (don't burn) for 20-30 minutes. Season with salt and ground pepper.


FANCY VERSIONS:
Fancy Old Fashioned Biscuits
4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 TBS sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp cream of tartar
4 tsp baking powder
mix dry ingredients together
5 TBS of cold butter
3 TBS cold lard
*cut in fats to dry ingredients until size of small peas
2 cups buttermilk
*gently mix in liquid. Only until dough comes together. Tip onto floured surface. Cut into circles. Bake in hot 425 degree oven.

Fancy Milk Gravy with Sage Sausage
1 pound sausage seasoned to taste with chopped dry sage, salt, pepper, and a little heat if you like it.
2 TBS flour
1 can evaporated milk (NOT sweetened condensed)
Brown sausage, keep all grease in the pan. Add flour. Brown for 1 minute. Slowly add evaporated milk while mixing for 20 minutes. Add more milk or water if it gets too thick. Season with freshly ground pepper and salt. Incredible!