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Hog Dog Mike
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« on: April 29, 2012, 11:12:34 am » |
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We killed alot of hogs when I was a kid. The water was heated in a cast Iron washpot. We used a 55 gallon barrel burried in the ground at about a 45 degee angle. The hog was put in the barrel turned over and then we swapped ends and did the same thing. We put the hog on the sideboards of a hay truck and all us kids scraped it. If the water is too hot it will set the hair and it is nearly impossible to come off.
The guts was dumped on some more sideboards and we had to pick out the gut lard so it could be melted and put in cans.
The hams were rubbed down in Morton's Sugar Cure. My cousin always took a boning knife and went into the knee and made sure some sugar cure got in there. I was always told the liquid on the knee would poison you if it was not drained.
In the old days everybody hung their hams with bear grass loops ran through the meat.
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