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This a beautiful PURE STAINLESS STEEL cream can. Please see our picture below. This DOES NOT contain food or a propane burner! It is a method of cooking the food in the recipe provided. If you can find a cream can this good anywhere for less, buy it! We don't think you will. Many times even old cans at farm auctions go for much more than what this can costs.
Now if you are not from Nebraska, you may be asking yourself what the heck is a cream can supper? Well, quite simply it is a fast and easy way to feed a passel of folks a delicious (and nutritious) meal in nothin’ flat. We’ll get to that in a minute but first you need to know how this came to be in these parts.
From 1870-1885 Ogallala was the destination of countless cowboys driving cattle north from Texas to the railhead. And ever since then, this has been cattle country. Well with cattle, you gotta do some branding. And a very popular way of feeding a bunch of hungry cowboys was with a cream can meal. If you don’t think this is still done to this day, well…you haven’t been to cattle country.
Cream can suppers are perfect for back yard get-togethers, tailgate parties, wedding rehearsal dinners…actually any time you want to feed lots of folks. This is the baby of our cream can supper family and will feed 2-3 hungry people in less than an hour after ya start cookin’. We have a somewhat larger can that will feed 4-6. And larger cans that will feed 12 to 15, or 25 to 30! We’ll tell ya more about the cans after we tell you about the delicious stuff that comes out of em!
You’ll get a basic recipe of course, but part of the fun of a cream can supper is in the experimenting. Here’s a sample of what’s in the ones we do starting from the bottom up.
Rocks..well, thats what a lot of people used to use and you still can. Cleaned and sterilized of course. It keep the food out of the liquid… we are steaming not boiling! Now a modern alternative to rocks is the rings off of canning jars. About a doezen of them for this can. You can use them over and over and throw them in the diswasher for cleanup. Corn on the cob (or roastin’ ears if you call em that) Potatoes Sweet Potatoes Carrots Celery Bell peppers (green, red and yellow) Onions Summer Squash Zuchinni Squash Beer And ….brats of all sorts…beef brats, Italian sausage, polish sausage, german sausage, etc. Mix it up! Use several kinds. (Wiener dogs have been known to get MORE nervous when witnessing this preparation.)
Now you might want to add some asparagus, mushrooms, green beans, snow peas, cabbage…whatever trips your trigger. In fact, a seafood version of this may be in your plans. Our motto is “You can’t screw this up!” …..Unless you’re a darned fool then all bets are off.
For heat, this little guy will fit right on your range top! Or you can use one of those small propane cookers you've seen for camping.
For serving use a large container of some sort or perhaps a big clean plastic tote. You’ll come up with something’. Then folks will fill their plates and wonder where they put it all and still come back for seconds or thirds! The flavors of this concoction are so darned good you won’t even need butter on your corn. Hard to believe…but you just wait and see!
Now the tricky part of this is…where in tarnation do you get a cream can these days? Good thing you found us! Some folks will pick one up at a farm sale or auction but till ya try it out you don’t know if it’s gonna leak. And then, you have to ask yourself..what kind of metal is this made of anyway? Is there lead in it? Years ago people weren’t concerned about that. Now we know better. And even if the metal has no lead, if it has been soldered to repair leaks (many have)…guess what’s probably in that solder?!
Our cans are pure stainless steel. NOT aluminum…pure stainless steel. You’re kids will probably fight over this someday when you’ve cooked your last cream can supper.
These babies have no seams for food to get caught in and that also makes clean up easy. There is a hole in the lid to let steam out when cooking. (By the way about 30 minutes after you see steam, time to eat!) This works a bit like a pressure cooker so it works fast! You’ll want a couple big fellas to carefully remove the lid and dump the goods into whatever you are using to hold all this wonderful food. By the way, we figure about 2 - 4 bucks a head (depending on where you shop) is all it costs for a supper that will be talked about until you are begged to make the next one!
We’d like to tell you these beautiful cans are made in the good ole U.S. of A…but sadly, if there is a cream can manufacturer left in the U.S., we sure couldn’t find one. Actually we talked to a stainless steel manufacturer in the U.S. about making cans for us and they were going to come in at over six hundred bucks for our large can…our cost! We wanted to sell more than one or two so we are importing these from India, which is one of the leading manufacturers of quality stainless steel in the world. You’re going to be very impressed with the quality and workmanship that went into these cans. They’re a lot nicer than anything you saw on the farm!
There you have it! The history of a cream can supper and now you know what the heck it is. Now all you have to do is see what you’ve been missing and impress your friends and family with what you’ve discovered about a Genuine Ogallala Cream Can Supper. We hope to be of service to you.
Phil and John
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