Whole Hog Roasted

Submitted by Tim_John

"From "The Southern Heritage All Pork Cookbook."

 

• Ready In: 9hrs
• Ingredients: 8
• Serves: 70

ingredients

• 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

directions

1. Split backbone to allow pig to lay flat, being careful not to pierce skin.
2. Trim and discard any excess fat. sprinkle salt inside cavity. set pig aside.
3. Place 2O lbs charcoal in pork cooker. pour 1 quart charcoal lighter fluid.
4. over top, and ignite. Let burn until charcoal has turned ash-grey.
5. 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.
6. maintain temperature in cooker.
7. Place a second piece of wire over pig, sandwiching pig between the 2.
8. layers of wire. Turn pig over; remove wire from top. Insert meat thermometer.
9. in thigh; do not touch bone.
10. 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.
11. Slice and chop meat or allow guests to pull (pick) meat from bones.
12. Serve with BBQ sauce.