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'''William "Curly Bill" Brocius''' or '''Brocious''' as spellings vary, (ca. [[1845]]-[[March 24]], [[1882]]) was a western [[outlaw]], [[gunfighter|gunman]] and member of the "Cow-boys" outlaw gang of the [[Tombstone]] area in the [[Arizona Territory]] during the early to mid-[[1880's]].

== Notoriety as an outlaw and gunfighter ==

Brocius is sometimes confused with "Curly Bill" Graham, who was a different outlaw of the same general place and period. Curly Bill Graham was killed in a gunfight with deputy sheriff James D. Houck [[October 17]], [[1887]], buried in [[Young, Arizona]], and is almost certainly not the Curly Bill of Charleston and Tombstone.

In newspapers of the time Brocius is usually known simply as ''Curly Bill'', but later history has also referred to him by the spelling of Curley Bill. The spelling of "Brocious" has also been used (including in modern movies), but "Brocius" is the name the outlaw used for his maildrop in the Arizona Territory, according to one published letter of the time. Brocius is probably an alias. His birth name (including middle initial) and date of birth remains unknown.

Stories that Brocius once had a wife and children and paid another man to fight in the American Civil War for him, all arise from unverifiable claims in a letter that somebody (later untraceable) once sent to historian Ben Traywick. They are based on the very poorest of evidence, and are often disregarded.

No known photograph of Brocius exists, but from description he was known to have been a big man, well-built, with curly black hair, and of freckled complexion.

Brocius is described by contemporary Billy Breakenridge in his book ''[[Helldorado]]'' as being the most deadly pistol shot of the Cow-boys, able to hit running jackrabbits, shoot out candle flames without breaking the candles or lantern holders, and able to shoot quarters from between the fingers of "volunteers." When drunk, Brocius was also known for a mean sense of humor, and for such "practical jokes" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon, or making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked. (Both incidents were reported by Wells, Fargo agent Fred Hume in this memoirs, and both incidents are alluded to in the newspapers of the time).

== Arrival in Tombstone, confrontations with Wyatt Earp ==

Brocius probably came immediately to the Arizona Territory from Texas around 1878 after arriving at the [[San Carlos Reservation]] with a herd of cattle, but his earlier history is a matter of question. [[Wyatt Earp]], from conversations with Brocius while transporting him to Tucson for trial (for shooting town-marshal--in today's terminology, town police-chief-- [[Fred White]]) in 1880, thought Brocius he was an escaped outlaw from El Paso, Texas. There, he is the man who possibly had his right ear shot through by Texas Ranger, (and later, Asst. Marshal) Thomas Mode. <ref>(El Paso Daily Times, 18 July 1883)</ref>

These conversations with Earp were reported in the ''[[Tombstone Epitaph]]'' at the time. According to Earp, Curly Bill had asked him about lawyers during the journey, and Earp had recommended a man named Zabriski. Curly Bill had said he couldn't use Zabriski because Zabriski had years earlier been his state prosecutor for a crime he had been convicted of in El Paso, Texas-- a robbery in which a man had been killed. Later historical work based in this fact has linked "Brocius" with a man then known as William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham, who was convicted in a Texas robbery attempt (1878) with another known "Cow-boy" of the early Tombstone area, named Robert Martin (see external link below). These men were convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but both escaped, presumably to the southwest Arizona Territory. Since both Robert Martin and Curly Bill became known as leaders of the rustlers in Arizona Territory, they are almost certainly the same Robert Martin and Curly Bill of the Texas crime.

According to author Robert Utley, Robert Martin was a member of the [[Jesse Evans]] gang of outlaws in [[New Mexico]] during the mid to late 1870's. [[Billy the Kid]] briefly joined this group before going to work for [[John Tunstall]]. Evans' gang, a loosely-knit consortium of desperadoes known as "The Boys", would end up fighting against [[The Regulators]] during the [[Lincoln County War]]. Due to the time frame, location, and his friendship with Martin, Curly Bill Brocius may have been a member of the Evans gang as well. Perhaps tellingly, when Brocius was shot in Galeyville in 1881, he derided his attacker, Jim Wallace, as a "Lincoln County sonofabitch".

Undersheriff Wyatt Earp (with a deputy) was transporting Brocius by buckboard to Tucson for trial after the October 27, 1880 shooting of 31 year-old Tombstone town marshal [[Fred White]], following an incident where Brocius' gun discharged accidentally, while he was drunk and surrendering it to White. Brocius allegedly deeply regretted the incident, and reportedly liked White personally. He was arrested immediately after the incident by Wyatt Earp, who "buffaloed" him (hit him over the head with a pistol barrel) in the process. Wyatt Earp, acting in his capacity as deputy sheriff (undersheriff for the Tombstone area) of [[Pima County, Arizona]], then took Brocius to Tucson the next day for trial, possibly averting a lynching. Brocius waived his right to a preliminary hearing, which is evidence he wanted to get out of town.

Wyatt at this time held a county law position and Virgil Earp, at that time U.S. deputy marshal, held a federal position. [[Virgil Earp]] would briefly succeed White as town marshal (the town law position) for a period of less than two weeks, before being replaced at about the same time Wyatt resigned his own law position. Virgil would eventually be given the job of city marshal again, seven months later (by this time Tombstone had grown from town to city), and would hold it at the time of the [[gunfight at the O.K. Corral]]. Virgil was not present at the White shooting.

White died two days after being shot, by which time Brocius was in jail in Tucson. Although formally charged with the murder of White, and spending most of November and December 1880 in jail awaiting trial, Brocius was finally acquitted with a verdict of accidental death. In favor of Brocius' case was that White himself, before he died from his wound, had testified that he thought the pistol had gone off by accident, and that he did not believe the shooting was intentional. Wyatt Earp also testified in favor of Brocius -- an irony, given their later deadly feud.

==== Associations with the Clanton gang ====

Brocius was known as a rustler, but for a time, he also worked as a tax collection agent for Cochise County Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], making other rustlers pay taxes on their stolen cattle (the money went into the sheriff's coffers and added to his salary).

On [[May 26]], [[1881]], Brocius was shot by a compadre after an argument in Galeyville. The bullet passed though his neck and out the opposite cheek. Though the bullet must have passed very near many vital structures, Brocius survived. He was by this time an outlaw of considerable reputation, and although referred to as a ''gunfighter'', most of his shootings happened during drunken brawls or robberies.

In July, 1881 Brocius and [[gunfighter]] [[Johnny Ringo]] were said to have gone to [[Hauchita]], [[New Mexico]], to kill William and Isaac Haslett in revenge for the deaths of Clanton members Bill Leonard and Harry Head, who had attempted to rob the Haslett brothers' general store weeks earlier. Later in July, Brocius was said to have led an ambush attacking a Mexican trail herd in the [[San Luis Pass]] killing six [[vaqueros]] and torturing the remaining eight men.

There is no way of historically verifying these stories however, and Brocius was not charged with the crimes. These events, like the Haslett killings, also occurred quite near the time of Brocius' very serious wound, so his involvement in them is somewhat questionable. Diarist George Parsons saw Brocius on October 6 at the ranch of the McLaury brothers in the Sulphur Spring Valley, while Parsons was riding as part of an Indian scouting party, and noted that even by then, Curly Bill was well enough to ride, but had not yet completely recovered from his wound of 5 months before.

Following the death of [[Old Man Clanton]] (Newman Haynes Clanton) in the [[Guadalupe Canyon Massacre]] on [[August 13]],[[1881]], Brocius became a primary leader in the very loose-knit cow-boy gang. Parson's refers to Brocius as "Arizona's most famous outlaw" in early October, 1881. However, despite many reports since, the Cow-Boy gang was not closely organized. They had a loose gang-based association, but broke off into several small groups, and outlaw acts committed by them were rarely heavily planned or coordinated. Therefore, Brocius' leading of the gang was not by ''iron fist'', nor did he either approve or disapprove actions members of the gang became involved in. The gang was, more than anything else, a collection of independent outlaws that used their association with the Cow-Boys as a base of operations.

== Gunfight at the OK Corral and after ==

Following the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in October, 1881, Brocius may have participated in the attempt to kill Virgil Earp and (more probably) the later assassination of [[Morgan Earp]]. Again, however, Brocius was not charged, as there were no eye witnesses to either crime.

After the killing of [[Frank Stilwell]] by the Earp party in Tucson on March 20, 1882 during the now famous [[Earp vendetta ride]], Brocius was deputized, given a warrant issued for [[Wyatt Earp]] by Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], and sent to bring back Earp, who was in the [[Whetstone Mountains]] outside town.

Earp, who was also looking for Brocius in revenge for the death of his brother Morgan, encountered Curly Bill on March 24, 1882 at [[Iron Springs]] (today's maps show this as [[Mescal Springs]]). Brocius was camping outside his tent near the springs, and was surprised while in the act of cooking over a campfire. It may have been Wyatt's good fortune that Brocius, an excellent pistol shot, chose to use a shotgun as his first weapon (he may not have been wearing his pistol). In the gunfight that followed, Wyatt killed Brocius with a double shotgun blast to the chest from a range of about 50 feet. Brocius narrowly missed his own shot, hitting only Wyatt's long winter coat.

Wyatt's account from memory, of the fight at Iron Springs, given in a series of interviews with the [[San Francisco Examiner]] in 1896, and repeated to biographers John Flood (unpublished manuscript-- see link below) and Stuart Lake ([[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal]]) matches in all essential details an account of the fight given separately by a jailed [[Doc Holliday]] to a newspaper in [[Denver]] in May, 1882, just two months after the fight (and while Wyatt was in [[Gunnison, Colorado]]). If the fight at Iron Springs didn't happen much as Wyatt told it, it is difficult to explain how Earp would remember a fiction made up with Holliday, after nearly half a century, as well as if it had actually happened. Therefore, it is generally believed to be fact.

After Brocius' death, his friends were said by John Flood to have buried the body on the nearby Frank Patterson ranch on the [[Babocomari River]]. This land, close to the original McLaury ranch-site before the McLaurys moved to the Sulphur Springs Valley in late 1880, originally is believed to have previously belonged to [[Frank Stilwell]], and is located on the river about five miles west of Fairbank. If Brocius' body is there, in a still-wild section of country, the gravesite has been lost. Some claimed that Curly Bill escaped, changed his name, and went (back) to Texas. However, he was never seen again in Tombstone after March 24, 1882, despite a $2,000 reward later put up by the [[Tombstone Epitaph]] for an authentic interview and sighting of him alive.

Tombstone historian Ben Traywick has argued that this was too much money for a man like Brocius to turn down for a chance to tweak the Earps and their supporters in the bargain, especially since he was not wanted by the law in Arizona for any crime, and had no reason to disappear when he did (and certainly no reason to go back to Texas, where he actually ''was'' probably a wanted man). In any case, the money offered by the [[Tombstone Epitaph]] was never claimed.

== Portrayals in film ==
*Brocius is played against type by a young [[Jon Voight]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'' (1967). This was Voight's first film role. (Later Voight's break-through role would be as Joe Buck, the cowboy in ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' who parodies the Earp/Holliday relationship).
*Brocius is played by [[Powers Boothe]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Tombstone (movie)|Tombstone]]'' ([[1993]]) starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Wyatt Earp. This movie draws heavily on the Breakenridge book ''[[Helldorado]]''.
*Brocius is played by Lewis Smith in the 1994 movie ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' ([[1994]]) starring [[Kevin Costner]] as Wyatt Earp.

== Resources ==
*Sifakis, Carl. ''Encyclopedia of American Crime''. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1982.

== External links ==
* http://www.westernoutlaw.com/stories/files/Showdown.pdf This includes some good quotes from historical documents assembled by Ben Traywick.
* http://members.tripod.com/~Tombstonehistory/cbindex.html Cites and historical detective work on Curly Bill by Steve Gatto.
* http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/curly.htm Contemporary newspaper account of Curly Bill's near-fatal shooting in May, 1881.

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Archive:William Brocius

2006-08-08T04:34:25Z

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'''William "Curly Bill" Brocius''' (d. [[March 24]], [[1882]]) was a western [[outlaw]] and member of the "Cow-boys" of the [[Tombstone]] area in the [[Arizona Territory]].

== Notoriety as an outlaw and gunfighter ==

Brocius is sometimes confused with "Curly Bill" Graham, who was a different outlaw of the same general place and period. Curly Bill Graham was killed in a gunfight with deputy sheriff James D. Houck [[October 17]], [[1887]], buried in [[Young, Arizona]], and is almost certainly not the Curly Bill of Charleston and Tombstone.

In newspapers of the time Brocius is usually known simply as ''Curly Bill'', but later history has also referred to him by the spelling of Curley Bill. The spelling of "Brocious" has also been used (including in modern movies), but "Brocius" is the name the outlaw used for his maildrop in the Arizona Territory, according to one published letter of the time. Brocius is probably an alias. His birth name (including middle initial) and date of birth remains unknown.

Stories that Brocius once had a wife and children and paid another man to fight in the American Civil War for him, all arise from unverifiable claims in a letter that somebody (later untraceable) once sent to historian Ben Traywick. They are based on the very poorest of evidence, and are often disregarded.

No known photograph of Brocius exists, but from description he was known to have been a big man, well-built, with curly black hair, and of freckled complexion.

Brocius is described by contemporary Billy Breakenridge in his book ''[[Helldorado]]'' as being the most deadly pistol shot of the Cow-boys, able to hit running jackrabbits, shoot out candle flames without breaking the candles or lantern holders, and able to shoot quarters from between the fingers of "volunteers." When drunk, Brocius was also known for a mean sense of humor, and for such "practical jokes" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon, or making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked. (Both incidents were reported by Wells, Fargo agent Fred Hume in this memoirs, and both incidents alluded to, in the newspapers of the time).

== Arrival in Tombstone, confrontations with Wyatt Earp ==

Brocius probably came immediately to the Arizona Territory from Texas, but his earlier history is a matter of question. [[Wyatt Earp]], from conversations with Brocius while transporting him to Tucson for trial, thought he was an escaped outlaw from El Paso. These conversations were reported in the ''[[Tombstone Epitaph]]'' at the time. According to Earp, Curly Bill had asked him about lawyers during the journey, and Earp had recommended a man named Zabriski.

Curly Bill had said he couldn't use Zabriski because Zabriski had years earlier been his state prosecutor for a crime he had been convicted of in El Paso, Texas-- a robbery in which a man had been killed. Later historical work based in this fact has linked "Brocius" with a man then known as William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham, who was convicted in a Texas robbery attempt (1878) with another known "Cow-boy" of the early Tombstone area, named Robert Martin (see external link below). These men were convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but both escaped, presumably to the southwest Arizona Territory. Since both Robert Martin and Curly Bill became known as leaders of the rustlers in Arizona Territory, they are almost certainly the same Robert Martin and Curly Bill of the Texas crime.

According to author Robert Utley, Robert Martin was a member of the [[Jesse Evans]] gang of outlaws in [[New Mexico]] during the mid to late 1870's. [[Billy the Kid]] briefly joined this group before going to work for [[John Tunstall]]. Evans' gang, a loosely-knit consortium of desperadoes known as "The Boys", would end up fighting against [[The Regulators]] during the [[Lincoln County War]]. Due to the time frame, location, and his friendship with Martin, Curly Bill Brocius may have been a member of the Evans gang as well. Perhaps tellingly, when Brocius was shot in Galeyville in 1881, he derided his attacker, Jim Wallace, as a "Lincoln County sonofabitch".

Wyatt (with a deputy) was transporting Brocius by buckboard to Tucson for trial after the October 27, 1880 shooting of 31 year-old Tombstone town marshall Fred White.[http://www.odmp.org/officer.php?oid=14071 Fred White], following an incident where Brocius's gun discharged, whether purposely or accidentally, while he was drunk and surrendering it to White. He was arrested immediately after the incident by Wyatt Earp, who "buffaloed" him (hit him over the head with a pistol barrel) in the process. Wyatt Earp, acting in his capacity as deputy sheriff of [[Pima County, Arizona]], then took Brocius to Tucson the next day for trial, possibly averting a lynching. Brocius waived his right to a preliminary hearing, which is good evidence he wanted to get out of town.

Virgil Earp would briefly succeed White as town marshal for a period of less than two weeks. However, U.S. deputy marshal Virgil Earp was not present at the White shooting, and held no city or county law enforcement post at that time.

White died two days after being shot, by which time Brocius was in jail in Tucson. Although formally charged with the murder of White, and spending most of November and December 1880 in jail awaiting trial, Brocius was finally acquitted with a verdict of accidental death. In favor of Brocius' case was that White himself, before he died from his wound, had testified that he thought the pistol had gone off on accident. Wyatt Earp also testified in favor of Brocius-- an irony, given their later deadly feud.

==== Associations with the Clanton gang ====

Brocius was known as a rustler, but for a time, he also worked as a tax collection agent for Cochise County Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], making other rustlers pay taxes on their stolen cattle (the money went into the sheriff's coffers and added to his salary).

On May 26, 1881, Brocius was shot by a compadre after an argument in Galeyville. The bullet passed though his neck and out the opposite cheek. Though the bullet must have passed very near many vital structures, Brocius survived. He was by this time an outlaw of considerable reputation, and although referred to as a ''gunfighter'', most of his shootings happened during drunken brawls or robberies.

In July, 1881 Brocius and [[gunfighter]] [[Johnny Ringo]] were said to have gone to [[Hauchita]], [[New Mexico]] to kill William and Isaac Haslett in revenge for the deaths of Clanton members Bill Leonard and Harry Head, who had attempted to rob the Haslett brothers' general store weeks earlier. Later in July, Brocius was said to have led an ambush attacking a Mexican trail herd in the [[San Luis Pass]] killing six [[vaqueros]] and torturing the remaining eight men.

There is no way of historically verifying these stories however, and Brocius was not charged with the crimes. These events, like the Haslett killings, also occurred quite near the time of Brocius' very serious wound, so his involvement in them is somewhat questionable. Diarist George Parsons saw Brocius on October 6 at the ranch of the McLaury brothers in the Sulphur Spring Valley, while Parsons was riding as part of an Indian scouting party, and noted that even by then, Curly Bill was well enough to ride, but had not yet completely recovered from his wound of 5 months before.

Following the death of [[Old Man Clanton]] (Newman Haynes Clanton) in the [[Guadeloupe Canyon Massacre]] in August, 1881, Brocius became a primary leader in the very loose-knit cow-boy gang. Parson's refers to Brocius as "Arizona's most famous outlaw" in early October, 1881.

== Gunfight at the OK Corral and after ==

Following the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in October, 1881, Brocius may have participated in the attempt to kill Virgil Earp and (more probably) the later assassination of [[Morgan Earp]]. Again, however, Brocius was not charged, as there were no eye witnesses to either crime.

After the killing of [[Frank Stilwell]] by the Earp party in Tucson on March 20, 1882 during the now famous [[Earp vendetta ride]], Brocius was deputized, given a warrant issued for [[Wyatt Earp]] by Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], and sent to bring back Earp, who was in the [[Whetstone Mountains]] outside town.

Earp, who was also looking for Brocius in revenge for the death of his brother Morgan, encountered Curly Bill on March 24, 1882 at [[Iron Springs]] (today's maps show this as [[Mescal Springs]]). Brocius was camping outside his tent near the springs, and was surprised while in the act of cooking over a campfire. It may have been Wyatt's good fortune that Brocius, an excellent pistol shot, chose to use a shotgun as his first weapon (he may not have been wearing his pistol). In the gunfight that followed, Wyatt killed Brocius with a double shotgun blast to the chest from a range of about 50 feet. Brocius narrowly missed his own shot, hitting only Wyatt's long winter coat.

Wyatt's account from memory, 45 years later, of the fight at Iron Springs, given to biographers John Flood (unpublished manuscript-- see link below) and Stuart Lake ([[Wyatt Earp: Frontier Marshal]]) matches in all essential details an account of the fight given separately by a jailed [[Doc Holliday]] to a newspaper in [[Denver]] in May, 1882, just two months after the fight (and while Wyatt was in [[Gunnison, Colorado]]). If the fight at Iron Springs didn't happen much as Wyatt told it, it is difficult to explain how Earp would remember a fiction made up with Holliday, after nearly half a century, as well as if it had actually happened. Therefore, it is generally believed to be fact.

After Brocius' death, his friends were said by John Flood to have buried the body on the nearby Frank Patterson ranch on the [[Babocomari River]]. This land, close to the original McLaury ranch-site before the McLaurys moved to the Sulphur Springs Valley in late 1880, originally is believed to have previously belonged to [[Frank Stilwell]], and is located on the river about five miles west of Fairbank. If Brocius' body is there, in a still-wild section of country, the gravesite has been lost. Some claimed that Curly Bill escaped, changed his name, and went (back) to Texas. However, he was never seen again in Tombstone after March 24, 1882, despite a $2,000 reward later put up by the [[Tombstone Epitaph]] for an authentic interview and sighting of him alive.

Tombstone historian Ben Traywick has argued that this was too much money for a man like Brocius to turn down for a chance to tweak the Earps and their supporters in the bargain, especially since he was not wanted by the law in Arizona for any crime, and had no reason to disappear when he did (and certainly no reason to go back to Texas, where he actually ''was'' probably a wanted man). In any case, the money offered by the [[Tombstone Epitaph]] was never claimed.

== Portrayals in film ==
*Brocius is played against type by a young [[Jon Voight]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'' (1967). This was Voight's first film role. (Later Voight's break-through role would be as Joe Buck, the cowboy in ''[[Midnight Cowboy]]'' who parodies the Earp/Holliday relationship).
*Brocius is played by [[Powers Boothe]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Tombstone (movie)|Tombstone]]'' ([[1993]]) starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Wyatt Earp. This movie draws heavily on the Breakenridge book ''[[Helldorado]]''.
*Brocius is played by Lewis Smith in the 1994 movie ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' ([[1994]]) starring [[Kevin Costner]] as Wyatt Earp.

== Resources ==

* Sifakis, Carl. Encyclopedia of American Crime, New York, Facts on File Inc., 1982

== External links ==

* http://www.westernoutlaw.com/stories/files/Showdown.pdf This includes some good quotes from historical documents assembled by Ben Traywick.
* http://members.tripod.com/~Tombstonehistory/cbindex.html Cites and historical detective work on Curly Bill by Steve Gatto.
* http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/curly.htm Contemporary newspaper account of Curly Bill's near-fatal shooting in May, 1881.

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[[Category:1882 deaths|Brocious, William]]

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:29:47Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

== '''INGREDIENTS''' ==

'''BROTH'''

1 small to medium chicken (whole)

12 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

1 medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''

1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''

Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating

NOTE: All ingredients, particularly those marked with asterisks, can be found in "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets

== '''PROCEDURE''' ==

Combine ingredients for seasoning pouch in a cloth pouch (you can make one from cheescloth and twine) or a small strainer

In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:28:39Z

65.54.98.155:

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:26:26Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

''''''== Ingredients Broth=='''''

1 small to medium chicken (whole)

Approximately 10 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

A medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''

1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''

Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating

NOTE: All ingredients, particularly those marked with asterisks, can be found in "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets

== '''PROCEDURE''' ==

Combine ingredients for seasoning pouch in a cloth pouch (you can make one from cheescloth and twine) or a small strainer

In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:25:47Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

''''''== Ingredients Broth=='''''

1 small to medium chicken (whole)

Approximately 10 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

A medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''

1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''

Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating

NOTE: All ingredients, particularly those marked with asterisks, can be found in "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets
'''
==
Procedure =='''

Combine ingredients for seasoning pouch in a cloth pouch (you can make one from cheescloth and twine) or a small strainer

In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:24:49Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

''''''== Ingredients Broth=='''''

1 small to medium chicken (whole)

Approximately 10 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

A medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''

1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''

Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating

NOTE: All ingredients, particularly those marked with asterisks, can be found in "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets

'''== Headline text =='''

Combine ingredients for seasoning pouch in a cloth pouch (you can make one from cheescloth and twine) or a small strainer

In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:23:26Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

'''== Ingredients ==''''''
Broth'''
1 small to medium chicken (whole)

Approximately 10 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

A medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''
1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''
Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating

NOTE: All ingredients, particularly those marked with asterisks, can be found in "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets

'''== Headline text =='''
Combine ingredients for seasoning pouch in a cloth pouch (you can make one from cheescloth and twine) or a small strainer

In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.

The Cookbook/Phở gà

2005-01-05T02:18:43Z

65.54.98.155:

Pho Ga is one of the culinary gems of Vietnamese cuisine, availiable within a mile radius of almost every person in the community of Little Saigon, a Vietnamese enclave located in Orange County, California. Although the flavors are complex, the technique is simple, and the result delicious.

'''== Ingredients ==''''''
Broth'''
1 small to medium chicken (whole)

Approximately 10 cups chicken broth

3-4 slices of fresh ginger (whole)

A medium brown onion, peeled (whole)

1 tbsp of salt or more (to taste)

'''Seasoning Pouch'''
1 tsp. fennel seed

3 whole star anaseed*

1-2 dried cardamom pods (seeds)*

1/2 stick cinammon

3 cloves

"Pho" noodles*

'''Finishing Touches'''
Equal parts diced cilantro and green onion

A few fresh basil leaves, torn, to taste

THINLY sliced brown onion (several pieces per serving, to taste)

Hoison Sauce (1 tsp per serving)

Lime, to taste (squeezed into broth before eating)

*Can be found in most "Asian" markets and some large supermarkets

'''== Headline text =='''
In a large stock pot, boil broth ingredients together with seasoning pouch until the chicken is thoroughly cooked

Remove the chicken and strain broth back into the pot while continuing to simmer the broth. Once the chicken is cool, pull apart the meat into bite sized pieces and discard bones.

In a separate pot, boil the "Pho" noodles in sufficient water. Stop when they're no longer chewy (basically the way you'd boil spaghetti). Make sure you don't overdo it or the noodles will fall apart and you'll end up with porridge. When done, pour the noodles into a collander and "wash" them with lukewarm water. Then, leave them to drain.

Once the noodles have drained, add them to a bowl. Combine the chicken, "finishing touches" (see above), and enough broth to cover the noodles. Enjoy with fork (chopsticks if you want the authentic experience) and a spoon.