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What Was the First Chili Recipe?

The answer could depend on how youcombined with certain spices and herbs
define "chili". For this article, I amworked wonders with these poor cuts of
defining chili as "any stew made withmeat. The meat was cut into very small
significant amounts of chiles". Thepieces and then boiled with the chiles
Americanized recipe consisted of driedand spices.
beef, suet, dried chile peppers, andIn these Southwest jailhouses, chili
salt, which were pounded together andbecame such a popular dish that former
left to dry into bricks. Throughinmates, from time to time, wrote to
research, I have found three possibleprison systems requesting the recipe,
origins of chili.claiming that they could not find a
Back in the early 1840's, many Texanchili as good on the outside.
cowboys headed west for the CaliforniaOne of the most believable original
gold fields or out for a big cattlechili recipes came in 1828 when J.C.
round-ups. These cowboys pounded beefClopper observed what poor people in San
fat and dried beef with chili peppersAntonio were doing. They would cut what
and salt to make a sort of a paste. Thislittle meat they could afford into very
paste was easy to carry, and it made asmall pieces and stew it together with
food that wouldn't spoil quickly. Theyas many pieces of peppers.
would boil this concoction with waterNow, a few questions about you . . .
while they were on the trail to make aDo you know the origin of your favorite
hearty, hot meal.chili recipes? When you make chili, do
Others claim that these cowboys wouldyour friends always rave about it or ask
plant oregano, chiles, and onions alongyou for your recipe? Have you ever
their well heavily traveled trails inthought of creating a book of your
patches of mesquite. This kept thefavorite chili recipes?
foraging cattle from eating them. AsIt's a lot simpler than you think,
they moved along the trails, they wouldespecially when you use the Internet.
harvest the spices, onions, and chilesI'm talking about you creating and
that they planted and combine them withselling your own products. Like a
beef to make a dish called "Trail Drivecollection of your favorite chili
Chili".recipes or a newsletter announcing
Another version of the origin of chiliupcoming cook-offs. I'm talking about a
says that the first chili recipe wasreal business, with real products that
made in the Texas prison systems, sinceyou can be proud of. And a real
only the cheapest meats were served inpotential for significant long-term
prison. Prison cooks of the Southwestincome.
discovered that the chili pepper



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