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Astrang - Posted - 05/18/2019: 06:45:36
Oh I get the picture now, maybe it’s like what we here at home call a cat’s paw, a tool a carpenter would use to pull nails with. I guess there are straight ones and bent ones. The bent ones are cats paws, bent on a quick 90 degree angle, I have one in my toolbox. Maybe the straight one is a pig’s foot. A straight one, turned upside down, would look just like the hooves of a pigs foot, hence the name. Whatever it is, it’s reasonable to think that some blacksmith somewhere was making a tool for someone to use, like a carpenter. Shoving it further into the fire of the forge to get it hot enough for shaping.
DougD - Posted - 05/18/2019: 09:55:38
Yes, a kind of small crowbar (wonder where that name comes from). In the old days that could easily have been something made by a blacksmith - in fact I think with my junior high school metal shop training I could make one.
However that's not the "urban myth" perpetuated by the uninformed to the gullible. Read the first sentence of the entry at the Fiddlers Companion: ibiblio.org/fiddlers/SHO_SHU.htm Its utter nonsense, which is what I find annoying - and a bit humorous.
The name of this tune has something to do with cooking or hiding the foot of a pig, just like "Peg and awl" is about shoemaking.
TuneWeaver - Posted - 05/18/2019: 10:41:19
And yet, folks here on the Hangout quote the Fiddler's Companion often...as though they were quoting Sacred Books.....Admittedly, it does sound authoritative!!! Like I say.. '' its debatable"...
Can't wait until I get those little feet fellers in the pot and on the grill on Monday.. I'll report back..In fact I think I'll put them on the edge of the grill and after a while I'll..."Shove those pig's feet a little farther into the fire." In the future when the name comes up I'll be able to verify that indeed the phrase is sometimes use in a pork context...
DougD - Posted - 05/18/2019: 10:50:45
Its not debatable unless you believe in "alternative facts," which I don't.
The Fiddlers Companion is a monumental work, but like many complied works its full of errors. Those who quote it as "sacred text" just don't know any better.
DougD - Posted - 05/18/2019: 12:04:59
Peggy, I just checked the tracklist of Peter Hoover's recordings of Marcus Martin at the Field Recorders Collective, and its "a little farther in the fire," not "further." These young people today can't seem to get anything right!
groundhogpeggy - Posted - 05/19/2019: 06:49:58
Oh thanks, Doug! Now i can justify saying it right!
TuneWeaver - Posted - 05/20/2019: 13:44:49
My pig's feet are boiling on the stove as I type this.. The plan is to let them boil for 2 1/2 hours and then, Tomorrow, put them "to the fire"...and add BBQ sauce.
TuneWeaver - Posted - 05/20/2019: 16:15:52
Well, I did it... After two hours of boiling and 40 minutes in a 500 degree oven, with olive oil and bbq sauce... I dug into the pigs feet.. Must say the flavor was great but the event was challenging.. Lots of bone and fat..If Fat was on my diet I'd have been in "hog Heaven" pun intended... It was delicious, kid you not....No, I didn't use an open flame but still, I have now an appreciation for pig's feet in the fire (HOT oven).... As Mikey's brother says in the commercial (for you old folks), "Try it. You'll like it."
groundhogpeggy - Posted - 05/21/2019: 19:52:42
Pigs are cute and smart, but they also taste good...lol.
alaskafiddler - Posted - 05/22/2019: 19:32:35
I grew up where pickled pigs feet was common, (salted and smoked first). As well, other pickled pig parts, tail, ears, testicles, knuckles. Fiddle tune related... Pig Ankle I believe refers to the knuckle.
groundhogpeggy - Posted - 05/29/2019: 04:26:55
We used to cook collard greens with neck bones...every doggone part of the pig is good for something. One of our chihuahuas swears pork is the best meat of all. I was a vegetarian for a while, but these days I tend to agree with her on that.
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