Barbecued Ham

This term, rarely seen in modern cookery books, although it is found in some old English cookery books, comes from the Spanish barbacoa, and is derived from a native term of Haiti. As applied to cookery, it has two meanings: to barbecue is to cook an animal whole—hence the saying in Pope, “Send me, ye gods, a whole hog barbecued”—and it also means a wooden frame for smoking or roasting m