Very Old Lamb Technique From Crete

[ecowper]

I think I'm going to use my Hasty-Bake to create the fire and my rotisserie to hold the lamb leg. As if I laid the whole thing on its side. That's a recommended option in Sarit Packer's cookbook

[das85]

Very excited to see results and hear about the experience!

[RobertC]

ecowper One of my other BIL's has referred to this BIL as a joke, so there's that.

[RobertC]

https://radio-kreta.de/antikristo-the-traditional-way-of-grilling/

[ecowper]

Did I post this in the Jokes channel by accident?? ;-)

[ecowper]

Troutman you are correct that I meant Barbacoa as in the method of cooking by the Tainos peoples that is generally understood to have led to American Southern BBQ.

SheilaAnn that’s a pretty cool story.

[Troutman]

I was thinking 1959, does that make me even more ancienter?

[Troutman]

Actually barbacoa, or the term that is, was found in the Tainos peoples in the Caribbean where they cooked both in earthen pits and on raised racks. It's my belief they did so dependent on the toughness or perhaps the size of the cut of meat. However I do agree most what we think of as barbacoa is cooked in an earthen pit or pib as the Mayans called it.

[RobertC]

Sounds like something my brother-in-law would do. He's pretty much a cretan.

[Mr. Bones]

Sounds like th perfeck reason to git ya th Santa Maria Attachment doohicky thingy fer yer kettle, Brotherman!

[CaptainMike]

Wow, back before Homer, eh? We gotta go way all the way back to like 1989 or so for that!

[SheilaAnn]

ecowper when I first read this and saw Barbacoa, I thought for sure it would have been wrapped un burlap and buried overnight. I catered an event like that once. Had no idea what my chef was up to. I go to the site for set-up and am freaking out because I could not find the beef anywhere. No grills, no nothing. Then he told me to walk over to one section of the space and put my hand on the pile of dirt. It was super warm! Some of the the most tender beef I have ever had!

[ecowper]

I’m pretty sure Stacy won’t let me hang a leg of lamb in the kitchen like the picture. So, I’m thinking Hasty-Bake

[FireMan]

When I first saw this title I wondered how old the lamb was, like mebbee a sheep even. Glad I checked in to clarify the sitiation! So what cooker are you goin to cook it on. Looks like somethin out of my league.

[ecowper]

This is going to look very familiar to all of us Americans who know the origin of BBQ as Barbacoa, the Native American method of cooking on a wood frame above an open fire.

Except that this tradition, Antikristo comes from Crete and can be documented as far back as Homer.

https://www.tasteatlas.com/antikristo

Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich document the restaurant where they discovered it in Greece, how Antikristo is cooked now, and how to cook your own Lamb Antikristo. I happen to have a leg of lamb in the freezer ….. guess what’s happening later this week?