BH: Was there still a cook at the ranch when you were working there?
Tad: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
BH: Who were some of the cooks?
Tad: Oh, when I first knew anything about it there was a lady by Rae Polk (?), and she was a—anyway there was a—this Rae Polk she was a silver lady—I guess she'd had a family at one time, hadn't she, Tess?
Tess: Well, she'd been married. I don't think she had children.
Tad: Anyway, she'd been married. Anyway, she cooked for a leper (?) outfit down there by La Madiera—down there by Ojo Caliente and that country? And then she come in there and took that job there at that cookhouse, done the cooking. She was the first cook that we had there, that I remember.
BH: Now were you little, or was that when you worked there?
Tad: That's when I went to work there.
BH: Okay.
Tad: And I'm sure they had other cooks before that—but that's the first one that I remember.
BH: What kind of things. . . ?
Tad: Oh, heck—she was—like I say, the commissary was full of groceries. It took a beef a month there to maintain that. And boy they could go through the groceries.
Casey: And she would always have a whole big log of cinnamon rolls. . .
Tad: They liked cinnamon rolls, and cobblers—cherry cobbler was one of her favorite things to make. And gingerbread—lots of gingerbread. That was one of the things she used to send—cherry cobbler or gingerbread out to where we'd be working branding somewhere and they'd bring out a lunch or something, why she'd send that out. They'd take a roast, or roasted wieners, or something like a small roast—heck they'd go through a small roast. . . Man, they. . . they made all kinds of bread, rolls, and loaves of bread.