Marlboro Chili Recipe

[Jim Homer]

>Help! I'm looking for a certain chili recipe that I got ahold of
>about 14 years ago.

>Back in the late '70's (maybe 1978) one of the tobacco companies ran
>a promotion where if you bought a quantity of a particular brand of
>cigarettes, possibly Marlboro, you received a small, glossy booklet
>of chili recipes. I got one from a friend who smoked this brand of

>Terry Phillips

I must be more of a pack-rat than you, I still have the booklet.
It was Famous Chili Recipes from Marlboro Country. They also were
selling a Cast Iron Dutch oven as a Marlboro Chili Cooker.

This seems to be the recipe you want:

COWPOKE CHILI

They used to say a cowhand would work from sunrise to sunset "for a
dollar a day and a plate of beans." Now, either he liked his work or
the beans were pretty good. And they tasted even better when the cook
built a bean chili by adding bacon, tomatoes and hot peppers.

1 pound dry slab bacon
2 pounds dry pinto or navy beans
1 large onion, sliced
4 cloves garlic, sliced
2 Ancho peppers or 1 tablespoon chili powder
3 quarts water
2.5 teaspoons salt
1 one-pound can tomatoes
12 canned Serrano peppers, seeded and finely chopped or 12 tiny
green hot peppers, seeded and finely chopped
1 teaspoon coriander seeds. crushed

Remove the rind from the bacon and cut rind into 0.5 inch squares.
Cut bacon into small pieces; set aside. Put the rind, beans, onions,
garlic and Ancho peppers into the Marlboro Chili Kettle. Add water
and bring to a boil. Lower the flame, cover the kettle and let the
beans cook gently about 1.5 hours. Add the salt and cook uncovered
for 15 minutes.

In a separate pan, fry diced bacon until slightly crisp. Add tomatoes
and remaining ingredients to bacon. Cook this mixture over a medium
flame for about 10 minutes. Skim off excess fat. Add bacon and
tomato mixture to the beans and continue cooking, uncovered, over
a low flame for 1 hour or until beans are very tender. Makes 3 quarts.

I enjoyed looking through the booklet again.

Jim Homer
att!drutx!homer

[bruce bowser]

Even if it is after the fact, I heard that you should soak the beans overnight the day before.

[Thomas]

I have the original cookbook.

[Michael Trew]

That is true. The person who wrote the recipe probably assumed that was
common knowledge.

> I have the original cookbook.

That's pretty cool. That chili recipe sounds pretty good; I might try
that for a change of pace.

[dsi1]

You're also going to need your official Marlboro Chili Kettle. That might be a little hard to get.

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[bruce bowser]

Cooking bacon with diced turkey and adding it to chili can't POSSIBLY be a bad idea.