Look out, more Bacon Rabbits! Yum. Them l'il sumbitches are so good. How you planning on fixing them??
I saw cooking show a couple minutes ago, that had the boys scald/hair remove then roll dat pig over while cutting the meat off the bone. So instead of "caping" the hide, they cut the outer meat off the bones while still attached to the hide. Once they completed de-boning dat pig, they cut/dug all the meat out of the inside of the pig and started making sausage out of it. They made some dressing and mixed that sausage in and laid it out in the pig. Then they rolled the pig back together and used twine to sew his little ass back up and wrap around him.
They took that shoat and put him on the smoker. when cooked, he was covered in crackling, had been seasoned in/out. The just went down the pig cutting it into 3/4 to 1" thick rings of solid pig meat and meaty dressing about 10" across. it was like a huge sausage made out of the pig....
I've been gone from home for over a month now and can't wait to get back to smoke up some poke meat.
Cheers,
Breeze