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Ya know, I kind of liked the blog at first. And she had a lot of recipes from what I call the First Church Cookbook and the Second Church Cookbook, which have pretty much fallen apart (they were quite the thing of my mother's church back in the early '70s and some of their recipes were great. Others were quite terrifying.) So I could go to her site and look them up without having to go through the poorly organized (in the first place) and falling apart and spotty (in the second place) church cookbooks.
But the thing is that some of my old friends from high school also run working cattle ranches, and no way is she keeping it real. Those photographs...
I do wonder about all the people accusing her of plagiarizing. It's...the only way to plagiarize a recipe is to write it down exactly the way it was in your source. You can't copyright the ingredients (either the amount or the order added), just the patter. I forget the seminal case, but it was something to do with a directory. Everybody's brownies are going to have roughly the same things in them, and if you add, say, butterscotch kisses, then you have improved the recipe, but already thousands of people have thought of adding butterscotch kisses. (You may be able to copyright the names of things, although you can't copyright "brownies.")
Also I feel a certain amount of sympathy for anyone whose closest "town," 17 miles away, is Pawhuska.
But the original pioneer woman--probably this lady's husband's grandmother or great-grandmother I'm guessing--would have been 17 miles from Pawhuska which was a day's journey, and she would probably never have gotten there. And even if she did, it was ... Pawhuska. I can't imagine it was any any better town in the first part of the 20th century.
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