Eat just like the cowboys did over the next few weeks at the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site with the first "Cowboy Cuisine."

Jean Gallup says, diners will get to eat at two big round tables just like the cowboys did.

"They're pretty traditional ranch style furniture and they actually evolved from the early Chinese cooks that were looking for work to do after the railroad was completed and so with the ranches needing a cook they could easily contact the association in Calgary and somebody following right away to fill the bill," Gallup says. "This is a Chinese technology that they brought with them and was adapted as one of our tables is made from the hub of an Essex car and the other one is made from the hub of a dump rake, an early piece of equipment that was hauled by horses."

She says, cowboys wouldn't be talking in the dining room so the Lazy Susan's were a very good adaptation for the cooks to have, so they could get the food on and off and get the next crew right behind them in and have everybody fed as as soon as possible.

Saturday, July 29, they're going to be serving up cook's special pot roast with roasted seasonal vegetables that have been grown on site, with a flaky biscuit with butter and to finish it all off with a rhubarb crumble and cream.

Dinners go July 29, August 12 and August 26 at 11:30am

For more information: http://www.pc.gc.ca/en/lhn-nhs/ab/baru/activ/decouvertes-tours

 

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