@Frank Sanoica - Thanks so much for the recipe. I don't use eggs much, but I can modify, not replicate, the recipe. There are mousse recipes without eggs. I love getting old hand-written recipes, handed down through generations.
I remember when we would have family reunions and my uncle would cook a pig underground for a long time. Never heard the phrase pig pickin though. I like it.
We always call that a Pig Roast. Always some drunk tattooed shirtless guy that ties the ears around his head with the grease running down his neck. Good Times! Saw the Marshall Tucker Band at a Pig Roast party in Italy NY back about '78. They just showed up, guess they knew someone there. Got the tour bus stuck in the field!
I think the Hawaiians cook their pigs underground; not sure how. One ol' redneck boy here thought he'd do it the Hawaiian way. So he dug a hole, filled the bottom with hot coals, wrapped the pig in something, put it on the hot coals, put more hot coals on top of it, covered it with dirt and waited three days for it to cook. The third day he called a bunch of people in to enjoy the unusual feast. When he uncovered the pig, it had rotted so badly that a buzzard would not have even eaten it. I don't know what they had for dinner but it surely wasn't BBQ pig!
@Shirley Martin I would. I do not believe raw eggs are any different today. However, not sure exactly what the egg does in this case, or the result of leaving it out, or how the egg might be included if cooked first. Frank