This simple pot of pork chops in a bed of baked beans was a favorite in the old west. The use of hoisin sauce was authentic to the thousands of Oriental cooks that kept the pioneers, trappers, railroad workers and cowboys fed. Annual “Rendezvous” were held all over the west for fur trapper business and socializing. This dish is named in honor of a gay Scottish nobleman who enjoyed riding the range with these cowboys and Indians.
Brown the thick chops, make a great batch of baked beans and roast the pork right in the beans! What a wonderful dish of Wild West Flavors.
oil for frying the pork chops
3 Thick cut pork chops, boneless
½ cup brown sugar, divided
Salt and Pepper
1 medium onion, diced
2 TBS hoisin sauce
28 oz can baked beans
3 slices uncooked bacon, diced
¼ BBQ sauce
1 tablespoon mustard
1 – 2 Tablespoons butter
Directions:
Start by mixing ¼ cup of brown sugar, 2 TBS of salt, 1 TBS mustard powder, and 1 TBS paprika in a wide bowl. Roll each chop in this until well coated on each side and edges. Cover with plastic wrap and let sit for half an hour.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees and lightly spray a 9 x 13 baking dish.
Chop the onion and bacon into a large bowl. Open and drain the can of baked beans well. Spoon into bowl, Mix in the BBQ sauce, hoisin sauce, and mustard. Mix well and lay in the prepared baking dish, spread out to the edges.
Rinse the powders off each chop and let drain on a paper towel.
Heat the oil and butter in a large skillet.
Salt and pepper the pork chops. Fry the pork chops until nice and golden brown on the outside. As they are ready, remove each and place on the bed of beans. Push down in, then turn each over so the side up is coated with the bean mixture.
Cover the pan with foil, bake for one half hour.
Carefully remove the foil and turn the pan for even cooking. Remember: Pork needs to be cooked to 145 degrees, return for a second half hour of roasting.
Let set for about 10 minutes before serving. This gives you the right amount of time to fix a side green vegetable in the microwave.
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William Drummond Stewart
Sir William Drummond Stewart, 7th Baronet (26 December 1795 – 28 April 1871) was a Scottish adventurer and British military officer. He traveled extensively in the American West for nearly seven years in the 1830s. Stewart has been portrayed for adding a "homosexual dimension" to the historiography of the American frontier.
Born at Murthly Castle, Perthshire, Scotland, Stewart was the second son of Sir George Stewart, 17th Laird of Grandtully, 5th Baronet of Murthly and of Blair. The family decided that William would go into the Army. After his seventeenth birthday in 1812, William asked his father to buy him an appointment in the 6th Dragoon Guards. He immediately joined his regiment and began a program of rigorous training.
Stewart was anxious to participate in military action; in 1813 his father purchased an appointment to a Lieutenancy in the 15th King's Hussars, which was already in action during the Peninsula Campaign. The appointment was confirmed and he saw combat during the Waterloo campaign in 1815. In 1820 Stewart was promoted to a Captain and retired on half pay.
He adopted an “illegitimate son” of a servant girl named Christina, born in 1831. He acknowledged the boy, known as "Will", as his, and assumed full financial responsibility for both mother and son. They never lived under the same roof, but he did marry her later in life to legitimize the boy for purposes of inheritance.
Despite his marriage, Stewart entered a same-sex relationship with French Canadian-Cree hunter Antoine Clement that lasted for nearly a decade. This relationship is detailed in Stewart's two autobiographical novels.
Seeking adventure, Stewart traveled to St. Louis, in 1832, where he brought letters of introduction to William Clark, Pierre Chouteau Jr.; William Ashley and other prominent residents.
He arranged to accompany Robert Campbell, who was taking a pack train to the 1833 rendezvous of mountain men.
Annual “rendezvous” were held between 1825 to 1840 at various locations, organized by fur trading companies. They would assembled teamster-driven mule trains which carried whiskey and supplies to a pre-announced location each spring-summer and set up a trading fair (the rendezvous).
At the end of the rendezvous, the teamsters packed the furs out.
Rendezvous were known to be lively, joyous places, where all were allowed—fur trappers, Indians, native trapper wives and children, harlots, travelers and later tourists—who would venture from as far as Europe to observe the festivities. James Beckwourth describes: "Mirth, songs, dancing, shouting, trading, running, jumping, singing, racing, target-shooting, yarns, frolic, with all sorts of extravagances that white men or Indians could invent."
Rendezvous are still celebrated as gatherings of like-minded individuals. They include many of the activities as the originals, centering on shooting muzzle-loading rifles, trade guns and shotguns; throwing knives and tomahawks; primitive archery; as well as cooking, dancing, singing, the telling of tall tales and of past rendezvous.
Stewart attended the Horse Creek Rendezvous in the Green River Valley of Wyoming. Here he met the mountain men Jim Bridger and Thomas Fitzpatrick, as well as Benjamin Bonneville, who was leading a governmental expedition in the area. With some of the men, Stewart visited the Big Horn Mountains, wintered at Taos, and attended the next rendezvous at Ham's Fork of the Green River. Later that year, he journeyed to Fort Vancouver, 90 miles up the Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean.
Stewart attended the 1835 rendezvous at the mouth of New Fork River on the Green and reached St. Louis in November. In May, he joined Fitzpatrick's train to the Rockies for another rendezvous on Horse Creek. He wintered in 1836–1837 and 1837–1838 at New Orleans, where he speculated in cotton.
For the Rocky Mountain Rendezvous of 1837, Stewart took along an American artist, Alfred Jacob Miller, whom he hired in New Orleans. Miller painted a notable series of works on the mountain men, the rendezvous, American Indians, and Rocky Mountain scenes. In 1839 he delivered finished oils to Stewart, who hung the works in Dalpowie Lodge on the Murthly estate. Working from watercolor sketches he had made during their trip to the Rockies, Miller painted many canvases while an artist in residence on the estate.
Stewart returned to Scotland and Murthly Castle in June 1839 with his romantic partner Antoine Clement, and the couple lived in Dalpowie Lodge, while entertaining in Murthly Castle. Stewart explained Clement's presence by at first referring to him as his valet, then as his footman. Because Clement was restless and unhappy in Scotland, the couple spent many months traveling abroad, including an extended visit to the Middle East.
The gay nobleman loved roaming the old west with the cowboys and Indians. In September 1843 he and a large entourage traveled to what is now Fremont Lake. Stewart brought with him a large array of velvet and silk Renaissance costumes for his all-male guests to wear during the festivities. Fur trader William Sublette co-hosted the party with Stewart. Though there had been no rendezvous since 1840, the party had many elements of the old Rocky Mountain gatherings. Stewart had planned to spend the winter of 1843–1844 in New Orleans, and visit Taos and Santa Fe the following spring, but the Renaissance pleasure trip ended in a "scandal" that led him to leave for Scotland immediately, never to return to the United States.
Stewart's later life was an alienation from his family. His adopted son William Stewart died from a self-inflicted sword swallowing injury in 1868. In 1856 Stewart's friend Ebenezer Nichols, his wife, and three sons, visited from Texas. When it came time to leave Scotland, the Nicholses' middle son, Franc, refused to return home. He instead stayed on with Stewart at Murthly Castle, eventually being adopted by Stewart and becoming his primary heir. Stewart died of pneumonia on 28 April 1871.
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