Pit Cooking

[larryours]

Dig a pit at least 3 feet deep, get a good hardwood fire going, add enough wood to get a good bed of hot coal.

Prepare your meat ( beef,pig,deer, bear) ect.

I mostly add my seasoning, except for salt. the salt will tend to dry out the meat. Wrap a ham, tenderloin, in heavy duty aluninum foil,

After good bed of hot coals place a sheet of tin over coals, then add some green leaves onto the tin(I prefer maple) then lay you meat onto the leaves, cover with another layer of leaves over foil,
then fill with dirt, let cook under ground for 8 hours, dig up and enjoy. I like to wrap a few onions in foil, some corn on cob, an a few potatoes, put these on top of the leaves covering the meat add another layer of leaves then cover with soil.

After slow cooking under ground for 8 hours, the meat will melt in your mouth.

I like to start a fire and get a good bed of coals( Mostly two hours)
before puting in meat & vegetables,I like to start the fire like at 9 a.m. put meat in at 11 a.m. & be ready to eat at 7 p.m.

I thought this would be good to pass on with Memorial Day and then 4th of July comming up. Makes for a Great meal!

[rubicon]

Larry, did you ever eat any of the hogs we cooked during the Blackwater 100? We did kinda the same thing. One of my buddies Sam and I cooked the hogs each year. I got screens from LR Tipple and we set them up on concrete blocks and built a big fire beside them and shoveled the hot coals in under the screen . we cooked 3 hogs at a time and would start about 6pm and go through the night. Made our barbecue sauce in a galvanized trash can and put it on the hogs with a mop. (bought new mop and can each time even though it wast fitting for true rednecks not to use the older ones). Cooked nine hogs over the three days of the race and always sold out. this was for the fire dept. And thats how we bought the new fire truck and land where we built the firehouse. Miss that race!

[larryours]

Rubicon,I helped out at the races early-mid 80's traffic & crowd control for races, it might have been the last race, I don't remember the correct year, however I do remember someone bringing me some barbque on a bun, wrapped in tin foil, yes, those was the days, in brought in a lot of money for the area, from outside visitors, and I think helped more than it hurt anyway, those days are gone ! Larry