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The delicacies of ratlesnake meat was introduced to us at an early age by
my father, the youngest son of John Bowen, the Founder of Pleasanton, Tx.
As a cowboy on the old Judge Noonan Circle Dot ranch, with his 44 Colt
six-shooter now in the Ben Parker Atascosa Museum, he’d blast the head off
a sizeable diamond back and supper was practically in the pot.

Cut 5″ sections of the dressed rattler till you have about 2 pounds. Salt
and peppepr; dip pin milk and roll in flour. In 2 or 3 T. of hot fat
sizzle in a heavy skillet till golden brown on both sides.

With slices of onion on top of the meat, add a scant cup or so of hot
water, cover tight and simmer. Don’t boil. Very slowly on low heat for
about an hour until it’s tender as your heart. A sprinkle or two of milk
for the last fifteen minutes is all to the good. Add a little garlic and,
if you want your spurs to really jingle, throw in, as your conscience
dictates, a grab of chili-petines.

It’s larrupin’ good all right; but if you’re feeding a dude tell him it’s
flown-in breast sections of baby French pheasants or hind legs of a new
breed of frogs and he’ll CHUPAR LOS DEDOS!!

SUBMITTED BY JOHN BOWEN, IV

SOURCE: “Brush Country Cookbook, Pleasanton’s Bicentenial Cookbook”, 1976

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