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Boston butt recipe smoked pork butt on the uds smoker
Boston butt or pork butt is the American name for a cut of pork that comes from the upper part of the shoulder from the front leg and may contain the blade bone. Boston butt is the most common cut used for pulled pork, a staple of barbecue in the southern United States.
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- Boston butt recipe smoked pork butt on the uds smoker
- Bbq pulled pork smoked boston butt
- History of the name and cut
- References
In the United Kingdom, Boston butt is known as pork shoulder on the bone, since regular pork shoulder normally has the bone removed and then rolled and tied back into a joint.
Bbq pulled pork smoked boston butt
History of the name and cut
In pre-revolutionary New England and into the American Revolutionary War, New England butchers tended to take less prized cuts of pork like hams and shoulders and pack them into barrels for storage and transport, known as a butt. This particular shoulder cut became known around the country as a Boston specialty, and hence it became the "Boston butt." In the UK it is known as "pork hand and spring", or simply "pork hand," or, as noted above, "pork shoulder on the bone."
In Spanish the cut is known as paleta de puerco, and is the main ingredient in the Mexican dish carnitas and in the Caribbean dishes lechon asado and pernil.
In Mexican Spanish, this cut is also known as the espaldilla (literally "little back").