Day 63: West Yellowstone WY to Hamilton MO
We leave West Yellowstone and are soon in Idaho potato country. Huge fields of potatoes grown under irrigation. The wheat fields are ripe for harvest. We ride through the INL Idaho National Laboratory territory where nuclear experimental work has been carried out for many decades. We stopped at Arco on our ride in 2012. It is much cooler today than it was on that journey. We stopped at Leadore for lunch. Great welcome from Brandon who as he handed us a menu said "I'm corking hamburgers today" so hamburgers it is. Becky is making beer batter. Here is her grandmothers's recipe One small bottle flat beer (leave the beer open overnight, or flatten by pouring from tumbler to tumbler ... That's what I saw Bucky doing and prompted my question). Sift together... 1 cup flour 1teaspoon salt 2teaspoons baking powder 1 tablespoon cornstarch Add 1egg and the flat beer and mix together. Becky said it can be used to coat anything. She coated some mushr...
