Eastern North Carolina Pulled Pork

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats	Hungarian	Pork, Sauces and	8	Servings

INGREDIENTS

2	T	Salt
2	T	Sugar
2	T	Brown sugar
2	T	Cumin
2	T	Chili powder
2	T	Black pepper
1	T	Cayenne pepper
1/4	c	Paprika
3	c	Apple cider vinegar
3	c	Water
1/3	c	White sugar
3/4	c	Brown sugar
2 1/2	T	Salt
1/4	c	Black pepper
1	T	Cayenne pepper
3	T	Paprika, Hungarian is best
1	T	Dry mustard
1	c	Worcestershire sauce
6	lb	Pork picnic shoulder roast
		or Bostom butt up to 10

INSTRUCTIONS

Mix rub ingredients together and store in a tightly sealed jar. Recipe
makes enough for about 3 roasts.  Rub spice mixture on the meat the
night before smoking. Place meat in  Ziploc freezer bag and let it sit
overnight in the refrigerator.  Remove the meat 1 hour before going
into smoker and let it come to  room temperature.  Mix sauce
ingredients well and bring to boil and then simmer for 2  hours.
Prepare smoker and pace meat on grill of smoker. Smoke pork at
220-240F for about 1 1/2 hours per pound. Mop every hour with sauce.
Turn roast over every 2 hours or so.  Here is when Danny Gaulden takes
out his pork shoulders:  For a tender, easy to slice roast- out of pit
at 180F internal For a  tender, easy to slice, pullable roast- out of
pit at 185F For a  tender, easy to pull roast- out of pit at 190F
Remove roast from smoker and let stand for 15 minutes. Slice or pull
off meat in strips and separate from fat.  For pulled-pork sandwiches,
chop the meat. Spoon some of the sauce  onto a fresh split bun/roll.
Heap on meat and spoon on more sauce  over meat.  Serve with coleslaw
on the sandwich or on the side.  Recipe by: Unknown but by Bill Wight
Posted to bbq-digest V5 #519 by wight@odc.net on Sep 9, 1997

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 1127 Calories From Fat: 671 Total Fat: 74.5g Cholesterol: 197.3mg Sodium: 7981.6mg Potassium: 1471.4mg Carbohydrates: 41.8g Fiber: 4.4g Sugar: 30.9g Protein: 71.6g

It is not easy to get the law killed. Something of a legal disposition remains even in the believer while he is in this world. Many a stroke does self and self-righteousness get, but still it revives again. If he were wholly dead to the law, he would be wholly dead to sin. But so far as the law lives, sin lives. They that think they know the gospel well enough betray their ignorance. No man can be too evangelical [gospel-centered]. It will take all his life-time to get a legal temper destroyed.

Ralph Erskine