Please Help!!!-First-Time Smoked Butt

[Elaine620]

Hi,

I am planning on buying a Smoked Butt for the first time. Any suggestions on how to pick out a good one? Could someone please give me an easy way to cook a smoked butt and when to add cabbage and new red potatoes? Also any seasonings that I need to add? Regular stove top cooking recipes and crockpot recipes would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much.

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

Hi Elaine !

Buying a "good" one is not hard. Buy a piece the size you like, 3-4 lbs and you rarely can go wrong. I love them.

This is an old recipe that may help get you started:

Authentic Hungarian smoked butt

Yield: 8 Servings

3 pounds Smoked pork butt
3 tablespoon Brown sugar
2 quart Water


Smoked butt made in the Austrian-Hungarian style is wonderful and economical eating. The butt is cooked in brown sugar water. I find that the smoked butt is small enough to last for a few meals. It usually weighs about 3 to 4 pounds, is not full of fat. If you have not tried a smoked butt, you will be in for a surprise. It has very good smoked ham flavor. It makes a wonderful "corned beef and cabbage" meal for Saint Patrick's Day, but cooks much faster than corned beef. Only 40 minutes a pound and it is done, versus hours for corned beef. No fatty waste.

Place Butt in pot large enough to hold at least 2 quarts of water (enough to cover butt), add the brown sugar and simmer on top of stove in covered pot, 40 minutes to each pound of butt. When done, remove butt from pot but do not throw away cooking liquid. Slice and serve warm with boiled or mashed potatoes and vegetable. Sour Cream Coleslaw on the side is nice.

The wonderfully flavored cooking water is used to make a delicious soup, with the addition of cabbage, tomato, onion, potatoes. Smoked butt is versatile and full of tender meat.

[pilgrim30]

Hello Nochef&justlovesfood.yum!

Just gotta ask: Is this butt beef or pork??

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

pork Beef is a whole other show LOL

[krnxguhj33]

What's a smoked butt? -.-;;
Gah I feel stupid asking this.

[NOCHEF&JUSTLOVESFOOD.YUM]

What's a smoked butt? -.-;;
Gah I feel stupid asking this.

No, not silly It is just an American thing, and Southern at that. It is the difference between grilling over hot coals and cooking over a much lower temperature for hours.

Here is a link that may help. Come back if you need more, that is what we are here for.

http://www.bbqdan.com/smoking/butt_basic1.html

[Semigourmet]

Hello Nochef&justlovesfood.yum!

Just gotta ask: Is this butt beef or pork??

Usually when someone refers to a butt as in smoked or pork butt it all refers to butt. they will call beef a shoulder roast. They will also refer to a Pork butt as a pork shoulder roast (as that is what it is)

And like no chef says. No question is stupid. this is how we learn, and part of the reason why we are here, either to learn or to teach or both.