Blue Lick Battleground State Park - Ewing, KY

Battle of Blue Licks Monument

Blue Lick State Park is a remotely located state park on a fairly small tract of land which celebrates the “resounding” defeat of the American Colonialists against the British (with the help of American Indians).  The campground is...interesting...power and water are both 50 ft from the site.  Fortunately, we were ready for them.

But we are here for our first Kentucky culinary treat, and it bested our expectations.  First, tomato pie.  We had just tried making this at home, but this one was made with Mayonnaise instead of yogurt.  Dinner was Goette (pronounced get - uh) with potato cakes.  Goetta is a sausage made from ground meat and pin oats.  Desert was transparent pie.  Which is made from everything bad.  The filling is sugar, eggs, butter and heavy cream.  I think it’s called transparent pie because right after they put it in front of us, it disappeared.

Maybe some fly fishing on the Lick River, but it looks pretty muddy and difficult to get to.

Daniel Boone fought in this battle