Recipe for traditional pan de campo:
Ingredients:
8 oz evaporated milk (might need to add more milk if dough is too dry, some people use water instead)
4 lb bag of flour
4 cups buttermilk biscuit mix
1 tsp salt
3/4 cup baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1 cup lard or 1 large stick butter flavored Crisco
Directions
Mix all ingredients in a BIG bowl and let rest for about 20 minutes. Pinch off enough to roll out a 12″ circle about 1/4″ thick. Grease your dutch oven and place one dough circle inside dutch oven. Cook 15 minutes with coals on both top and bottom, then remove from bottom coals and cook another 5 minutes with coals on top to brown the camp bread.
This recipe makes at least eight 12″ pans worth.
This is another recipe for pan de campo that can be baked in an oven. This one uses oil instead of lard.
Ingredients:
8 cups of unbleached flour
8 tsp baking powder
4 tsp. salt
4 tsp. sugar
3 cups milk
1 1/2 cups corn oil
In a bowl add flour, baking powder, salt and sugar.
Add the vegetable oil to flour mixture.
Next, add milk a cup at a time. Dough should be a little sticky.
Dust a bread board or counter and begin to knead the dough.
Form 4 round rolls. Roll out with a rolling pin to about 1/2 inch thick and place on an ungreased baking sheet.
Preheat oven to about 400 degrees. Bake for about 20-25 minutes.
Pan de campo should be golden brown.
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A wonderful story filled with rich regional flavors. I can close my eyes and see this old fellow and I can almost smell the warm bread. Excellent writing.
What a well-written story. I enjoyed it so much. I hope you publish more work by this writer. Thanks for including the recipes.
This writer can tell a story and make you feel as though you are there. She has painted a very graphic picture for me of the old man with his cowboy attire and the bread. The pan de campo sounds like a real comfort food.
The lines at our post office are always long. How nice it would be to have him standing in line with us.
Another great story from the pen of a great writer! Thanks for posting it!
What a wonderful story. It left me with a lump in my throat for all those getting older with their aches and pains from a lifetime of hard work - but still with their dignity and humanity intact. Beautiful.
What a sweet story! I think I would have wanted to be waiting in that line to have the chance to buy some of this pan de camp; it sounds delicious!
betty
What a lovely story my friend! I am such a fan of your prose. How fortunate we are that you are gifted with a talent to make words dance in our heads, painting a lovely mural of life.
Hugs~
Such an engaging slice of life story about a regional character. This writer can certainly paint a word picture.
I love stories that bring out the best in us. I especially appreciate stories that highlight the simplicity of kindness. Kindness doesn't have to be a huge charitable donation or a big project. It can be a brief exchange between people on their way to doing something else. Stories like these remind me to slow down and take notice of the people around me and to recognize the details. These moments of interaction between people out doing errands are gifts in themselves. I'm going to try to reach out more to people I don't know during my holiday adventures.
Shelly, you know I always enjoy your prose and writing gift!! You open a door to so many interesting bits of history and life to those who wouldn't know otherwise.