Drunk and Dirty Tenderloin

This one owes its inspiration to our old Kentucky home—the one in Bourbon County. It was there, in the same year that the country adopted the Constitution, that a Baptist preacher named Elijah Craig invented the wonderful American whiskey that flavors this tenderloin. We developed the recipe originally, like a couple of others in the chapter, for our Texas Home Cooking (1993, Harvard Common Press). Over the years, it has proved to be