Campfire Beans
1-Large Cast Iron Pot
6-cups water
1- lb. Beef, pork or venison
2-4 tbls. Bacon drippings
1-Onion chopped
Fresh Garlic or Garlic powder to taste
Salt & Pepper to taste
2- cups DRY beans (if they have been soaked great, but it does not matter.)
4-6 Beef bullion cubes
Add all above ingredients and cook above hot coals until beans are tender.
Barbecue Pork Shoulder
(2 lb.) pkg. hickory chips, divided
2 qts. white vinegar
1/4 c. ground red pepper, divided
5 lemons, quartered and divided
1/2 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
1/4 c. ground black pepper
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1/4 c. liquid smoke
2 (4 lb.) pork shoulder roasts
Soak 1 pound of wood chips in water 30 minutes to 1 hour. Bring vinegar, 2 tablespoons red pepper,and 3 lemons to a boil in a Dutch oven over medium
heat; cook 10 minutes. Remove vinegar mixture from heat and cool.
Combine remaining 2 tablespoons ground red pepper,brown sugar, and next 3 ingredients. Rub evenly over pork. Drizzle 1 cup vinegar mixture over pork; set aside 2 cups vinegar mixture for basting, and reserve remaining mixture to fill the water pan. Prepare charcoal fire in smoker; let it burn 15 to 20 mins.
Drain wood chunks, and place on coals. Place water pan in smoker; add vinegar mixture and remaining and 2 lemons to depth of fill line. Place pork on lower food rack; cover with smoker lid.
Cook pork roast 4 1/2 to 5 hours or until a meat thermometer inserted into the thickest part of roast registers 160°. Baste with reserved 2 cups vinegar mixture every hour after pork roast has cooked 3 hours. Add more charcoal, remaining 1 pound wood chunks, and vinegar mixture to smoker as needed.