What does a man do when he has no animals of his own to butcher? He visits a historic farm and watches their hog butchering demonstration. Today was The Howell Living Farm, located in central New Jersey, annual hog event. A family from Pennsylvania arrived with three scaleded hogs and butcherd the hogs throughout the day. Besides cutting up the hogs, they ground pork meat, made sausage, scrapple and rendered pork fat. All of the techniques where done by methods used in the early 1920's of American farming. Spectators can get right up on the action, ask questions and even taste some scrapple. Scrapple is a eastern Pennsylvania product, using corn meal and a bunch of spices. It is commonly eaten during the morning meal, pan fried and dribbled with maple syrup. Everything is improved with a good douse of maple syrup.
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