Hog Butchering Our Way

[Carolina Coyote]

What no chittlings?. What a waste.   cc

[pitw]

What no chittlings?. What a waste.   cc

Let's all find out what chittlings are now please?

[Carolina Coyote]

Chitlings are the Intestines of the Hog, washed out real clean and deep fried, Black folk down south consider them a delicacy, I have tried them (not Bad0 but not something I would want to often, but Obama may serve at the Inaugural Ball. cc

[pitw]

Thank's for the reply   We do use the intestines for casing for stuffing sausage but have never heard of just cooking them. 

[FinsnFur]

Obama may serve at the Inaugural Ball.

:roflmao:

[pitw]

I took the bacon's off the hog's out of the brine that I made with Morton's tender quick yesterday and smoked them with apple wood.  My wife cooked some up a bit ago.  She sent Bob out for fresh egg's to eat with it and I can now tell you that is the finest bacon I have ever ate.  Simple and good, what a combination.

[alscalls]

mmmmmmmmmmmm!

[Tikaani]

I am with Al on this, I like that saw.  I use a battery operated Sawzall in the field for quartering moose, but at home that saw would be nice.

Hunt hard, die tired

John

[JoeF]

 Excellent post, pitw. It brings back many memories. Ought to be mandatory reading for all. 

As a kid butchering was a big event. Hogs were only an immediate family thing, usually. The big gatherings came about on the days when we butchered beef. My earliest memory of using a firearm is of me and dad straddling the top of the stock racks of dad's 1948 Ford 2 ton and having dad explain to me exactly where to aim and then handing me his 22 and letting me go to town. To this day I remember 3 shots and 3 downed and dead steers. Taught a guy respect for the power of a firearm.

Every family still had a smoke house, most still used them.

Nice saw!
  I'm with the guy that uses the Sawz-All. Not as nice as what you've got but a big step up from a hand saw.

Thanks again for the post. As expensive as the butcher shop is getting these days I here of more and more people who are once again processing their own meat.l

[alscalls]

I use a sharp hatchet.........I do not have a saws all or a hand saw (No Kidding) Three easy swings and I can cut a deer in half right down the spine... If we had bigger game, or still butchered I would get another saw but for deer hatchet skills are handy to have.......in the field especially.

[pitw]

Butcher shop called and said the ham's were ready.  3 ham's for total of 122 lb and 26 lb bacon.  Can't find this at safeway.

37 lb



2nd one was bigger as this lad weigh's 210


Some different view's of it.







Bacon's they cured for me as I was a bit afraid to do them all myself for a first time with the new recipe [won't make that mistake again]