Instructions: Cut venison into 1/2-inch by 1-inch pieces. Cut turnips into small pieces. Peel and cut potatoes into small pieces. Peel and seed winter squash, cut into pieces smaller than potatoes and turnips.

Put meat, vegetables and garlic in clay pot with a top. Add jerky, peppers, chili powder and salt and pepper. Stir in bacon fat. Wash herbs well and place them, with stems on, on top of other ingredients. Fill the cooker with water. Put top on pot.

Dig a hole about 1 foot deep in your yard. Line hole with rocks, warmed with the coals of a wood fire, and bury clay pot in the pit, taking care to cover all sides and top of cooker with wet cornhusks. After 7 to 8 hours, dig up the pot. (If you dont have a cooking pit, cook the ingredients in a crockpot on high for 6 hours, then overnight on low). Open and enjoy.

This recipe yields 6 to 8 servings.

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