pulled pork

How To Make pulled pork

• Step 1
  Preheat the oven to 325°F.
• Step 2
  If the roast has a fat cap on it, cross hatch cut through the fat, to make as shallow as possible cuts in the meat, about 1/2" spacing. Cut the meat into 4 fairly equal size chunks.
• Step 3
  ***Note - if your spice rub already has a heavy salt or pepper content, you may wish to reduce these measurements, or leave off altogether. Combine the spice rub, salt, and pepper in a shallow dish (or ziplock bag, if you prefer). Roll (or shake) the meat in the mix, getting all of the mix to adhere.
• Step 4
  Place in the Dutch oven, fat side up. Cover and bake for 3 hours, or until pork is fork-tender. Let stand 15 - 30 minutes, or until cool enough to handle.
• Step 5
  Serve warm - suggestions include on buns with barbecue, in your favorite burrito recipe, on tortilla chips (nachos), on rice with a variety of fresh vegetables (bowl), or anywhere your imagination will take you. Not on ice cream, though. I don't even want to know. . .
• Step 6
  ***Note - this originally came from a Favorite Recipes recipe card tin, made its own rub (too sweet and not enough flavor), used stout (left a weird yeasty flavor), and added a bit of cider vinegar (the pungent sour note turned me off). By accident, we left the liquids out - serendipity, since it put a nice crust on the meat but didn't burn it.
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