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Masonville, Iowa | It has been a few years...so bear with me.
Step 1. Get LOTS of beer and a couple of friends with strong backs and shovels or a backhoe.
Step 2. Dig a hole about 1 foot longer than the pig is and a little wider than the height of woven wire fencing and around 3 feet deep.
Step 3. Fill hole with dry hardwood and lite a fire. Let fire burn down and fill up with hardwood again. Let burn down to coals. You want about a foot of glowing red coals.
Step 4 While fire is burning continue to monitor quality and coolness of beverages mentioned in Step 1. Soak, in water, enough burlap to wrap the pig in. Stuff the cavity of the pig with something. (We dump in a couple of big cans of fruit cocktail, whole chickens and 10 to 20# of bulk Itailin sausage) This is to keep the ribs from over cooking.
Step 5 Wrap the pig with aluminum foil a couple of times and then wrap with burlap. Place pig on a piece of woven wire (or hog paneling) which is at least 4 feet longer than the pig (about 10 feet).
Step 6 When the fire has died down and you have a good bed of coals, lower the pig into the pit. Leave the wire underneath it but make sure that the wire sticks up above the ground.
Step 7 Cover the pig with 4 to 6 inches of charcoal. Let the charcoal burn up so that it is completely buring on top of pig. Cover pig with 12 to 18 inches of dirt. And return to the 1st part of Step 4.
Step 8 We usually waited about 18 hours. And then started to uncover the pig. Carefull get as much of the dirt and ash off the top of the as you can. You will swear that there is nothing let of the pig. Grap hold of the wires you have left sticking out of the ground and lift out.
Step 9 Carefully remove what is left of the burlap and all of the tinfoil and start chowing!! DO NOT eat what was in the cavity of the pig. It is very nasty tasting stuff as all the of the seasoning and flavors were pulled into the pork.
We have had good luck doing it this wasy and I am sure others will have tips that I haven't learned. Pictures and samples of your experience would much appreciated!!
Sean
Edited by seand 7/15/2008 11:40
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Finally, a pig that can see what is in front of it
