Prettles

• pork butt or 1 fresh picnic roast, or some fattier pork combined with a little less beef↗1
• old-fashioned oatmeal↗
• ground allspice
• salt↗
• pepper↗

Step-by-step instructions

1. 1

   Boil the meat until it falls off the bones, generally in a dutch oven on top of the stove.

2. 2

   About 2 hours.

3. 3

   Reserve cooking liquid.

4. 4

   Remove meat from bones and grind, fat and all in meat grinder.

5. 5

   Cook old fashioned oats in the cooking liquid, adding enough oats to make a texture like oatmeal.

6. 6

   Mix ground meat with oatmeal mixture and add allspice, salt and pepper"to taste".

7. 7

   I used a fair amount of allspice, 1-2T for a batch.

8. 8

   Refrigerate or freeze in serving sized batches.

9. 9

   Prepare by spoon frying, with a little butter or oil, until a browned coating forms.

10. 10

    Eat for breakfast or on bread as a sandwich.