The oldest recipes are made of dried or scrap beef, suet, and chilis simmered in water or stock, with salt, cumin, paprika, and masa harina, hominy flour, or tortilla pieces for thickening.
Tomatoes, tomatillos, nopales, onions, garlic, beans, are all post 1900 embellishments.
'preciate the advisement and guidance. back in the day, chili was a staple of the working cowboy, wasn't it?
