barbecuer

Updated: August 23, 2024

It is basted steadily with salt water, applied with a clean mop, and turned over once only. Live coals are added as needed from the log fire kept burning a little way off. All this sounds simple, dead-easy. Try it it is really an art. The plantation barbecuer was a person of consequence moreover, few plantations could show a master of the art.

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