Prettles - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 lbs pork shoulder
5 lbs beef roast
1 tablespoon pepper
5 tablespoons allspice
1 lb pinhead oats or 1 lb steel cut oats, this is 4 cups

Preparation

Cover with salted water, and boil until meat is tender. Grind the meat in a meat grinder.
Mix together well. Set aside.
Cook 4 cups pinhead oats, in the broth left over from the meat. You will need 3 cups of broth for each 1 cup of oats. Cook 20 minutes. Then add the the ground meat, mixing well. Add the pepper and allspice mixing well. Spread into a couple 9x12 cake pans. Place in freezer until cool enough to cut into blocks, wrap in foil and return to freezer until ready to use.
Place a small amount of Crisco or butter in a skillet and fry just until heated.
We serve it on bread or toast. Some put molasses on it too.
If you like it spicer add more pepper and allspice to taste.