
Cajun microwave recipe called 'Couchon du lait', serves 100 and requires a whole pig and 60lb of charcoal amongst other ingredients.
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Recipe: 'Couchon du lait'
Yield: 100 Servings
Ingredients
1 dressed pig - (75 to 100 -lbs)
1 bottle Tabasco pepper sauce - (12 oz)
60 lb charcoal briquettes
Instructions
Have backbone of pig split so that it will lie flat, and be careful not to pierce skin. Trim and discard any excess fat. Sprinkle salt inside cavity and set
pig aside.
Place 20 pounds of charcoal in a 55-gallon drum. Pour charcoal lighter fluid over coals and ignite. Let charcoal burn until it turns ash-gray, then spread out coals, concentrating them at shoulder and butt areas. Place heavy-gauge wire-mesh the size of the pig on the grill around fourteen inches from coals. Place the pig flat, skin-side up, on wire mesh. Cook at 225 degrees for six hours, basting last hour with barbeque sauce and
Tabasco pepper sauce.