With an 1872 Bain chuck wagon as a backdrop and two fire pits, Palo Duro Cowboy Church members cooked an authentic chuck wagon meal for its annual fundraiser on Oct. 17.
“We are amazed by the turnout; the Lord blessed us,” elder Mark Weeks said. “We thought we weren’t going to have enough. People kept coming, and we had plenty of meat.”
The meal consisted of chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, brown beans, biscuits and three kinds of cobbler. All were cooked over the fire pit or in Dutch ovens. It took 40-pounds of potatoes, 12-pounds of beans, 10-pounds of flour and two gallons of heavy whipping cream (for 140 biscuits), and 10-pounds of peaches, nine bags of mixed berries and 10 cans of cherries (for the cobblers). The Cooper Autry family donated the meat…