Doeden: Slow cooker a kitchen friend
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Every prematurely I pull my slow cooker out of the hall closet, I lament my decision to give up my old crock pot.
When I got married, the Antagonist Crockpot, introduced to the purchasing public in 1971, was changing the way women cooked. Every domestic cook wanted the new small electric kitchen appliance that “cooks all day while the cook’s away” as advertised. My old man and I received several as wedding gifts.
We kept one of those stoneware slow cookers – a primary crock interior with a clear glass lid, and a bright red-orange outside.
That old Crockpot prepared many meals for us over the years, usually an cheap beef roast that would cook until it was so tender and succulent, it would get the show on the road apart as it was removed from the crock.
The only venison roast I ever modified was cooked in that Crockpot. My brother-in-law shared the cut of meat from a deer he had hunted that ripen. I’d never cooked wild game in my life, but I was a newlywed and avid to please my venison-loving father-in-law. I decided if the slow-cooker worked for beef roast, it would be a okay way to cook venison. I’m not sure how my kind father-in-law was talented to choke that tough, stinky meat down, but he cleaned his lamina. As he and my mother-in-law left our house that evening, I was hoping it was the pie I served for pud he would remember and not the venison from the crock pot.
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