How To Prepare & Roast Lamb

This video was made during an annual family reunion at Lake Manawa State Park, near Council Bluffs Iowa. This family has been roasting a lamb every year for sixty years and they graciously allowed me to record their efforts. As way of introduction I would like to point out that the sixty pound lamb came from a Nebraska butcher shop that mistakenly split the hips. The stainless steel “spit“ is ordinarily difficult to use and the butchers error added some extra time (and cuss words) to a routine preparatio