hiya guys
Buccaneer comes from Bucan ( a form of smoking )
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They were men who had shipwrecked or escaped from Spanish prisons, or marooned sailors or runaways. They consisted of groups of English, Dutch and French that existed solely on hunting. They inhabited primarily the island of Española, on the north-western part of the island. This part of the island was poorly inhabited by the Spaniards allowing the foreigners to range freely. On this side of the island, there were large number of domesticated animals (cattle, pigs, horses and dogs) that had turned wild, and were available for the taking. There were very few women or children in these groups, and the men lived wildly. Their only processions were the weapons they carried, knives, cutlass and rifles. They hunted the wild cattle and pigs with the help of packs of dogs, they had captured and trained. The animals they killed, was smoked to preserve the meat (no refrigeration), according to a method they learned from the natives. Strips of meat were placed on a rack, made of branches and slowly smoked over hot embers of charcoal. The natives referred to the smoked meat, as "Bucan", the Europeans hunters, called the process, "Buccaneering" and called themselves "Buccaneers".
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I have access to some wild boar I was going to use as its lots leaner, and as long as I get it over 140 F it will be fine lol, the marinade is made up of sandlewood, cayenne, long pepper, chilli flakes, safor smoking just to see how that is but ideally I'd like to use the kind of wood that they would most likely have used to smoke it
