Whole Hog Roasted
- dressed pig
- 1/2 lb salt
- 3 o lbs charcoal
- BBQ sauce
- 1 gallon vinegar
- 3/4 cup salt
- 2 tablespoons red peppers
- 3 tablespoons red pepper flakes
- 1 cup firmly packed brown sugar or 1/2 cup molasses
- Split backbone to allow pig to lay flat, being careful not to pierce skin.
- Trim and discard any excess fat. sprinkle salt inside cavity. set pig aside.
- Place 2O lbs charcoal in pork cooker. pour 1 quart charcoal lighter fluid.
- over top, and ignite. Let burn until charcoal has turned ash-grey.
- Place heavy gauge wire, about the size of pig, over pork cooker. 13" from coals.Place pig flat, skin side up, on wire surface. Close lid of cooker; cook at 225 deg. for 6 hours, adding additional lighted coals as needed to.
- maintain temperature in cooker.
- Place a second piece of wire over pig, sandwiching pig between the 2.
- layers of wire. Turn pig over; remove wire from top. Insert meat thermometer.
- in thigh; do not touch bone.
- Baste meat with BBQ sauce; pour sauce in rib cavity t o measure 1 inch.close pork cooker lid; cook at 225 for 2 hours or until meat thermometer registers 17O deg. and no pink meat is visible when hams and shoulders are cut.
- Slice and chop meat or allow guests to pull (pick) meat from bones.
- Serve with BBQ sauce.
salt, charcoal, bbq sauce, gallon vinegar, salt, red peppers, red pepper, brown sugar
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/whole-hog-roasted-462310 (may not work)