Prettles

Submitted by Earthsaverlou

"This recipe is a low dutch version of scrapple, often made after butchering a hog. It was given to me by my exhusband's grandmother and was a family favorite for years."

 

• Ready In: 3hrs
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 6 pints
• Serves: 24

ingredients

• 1 pork butt or 1 fresh picnic roast, or some fattier pork combined with a little less beef
• old-fashioned oatmeal
• ground allspice
• salt
• pepper

directions

1. Boil the meat until it falls off the bones, generally in a dutch oven on top of the stove.
2. About 2 hours.
3. Reserve cooking liquid.
4. Remove meat from bones and grind, fat and all in meat grinder.
5. Cook old fashioned oats in the cooking liquid, adding enough oats to make a texture like oatmeal.
6. Mix ground meat with oatmeal mixture and add allspice, salt and pepper"to taste".
7. I used a fair amount of allspice, 1-2T for a batch.
8. Refrigerate or freeze in serving sized batches.
9. Prepare by spoon frying, with a little butter or oil, until a browned coating forms.
10. Eat for breakfast or on bread as a sandwich.

Reviews

[Janet24]

I believe my family used pin oats when making this recipe.