Basque Chicken

Native Indian warriors attack the travellers’ train on the Oregon Trail, ‘skipping like enraged monkeys over the roofs, thrusting open the doors, and fighting hand to hand with the passengers’. When the armed attackers ride away in defeat, the courageous Passepartout is missing, and Fogg sets off across the plain to rescue him. This recipe for Basque chicken — given to me by Tony Milford of the Navajo Nation — will keep you warm on cold nights, and comfort you in the wilder