Knuckle RUB with salt and pepper. Leave at room temperature while preparing the marinade.

For the marinade onion cut into half rings.

Apple cubes.

To prepare the cloves and allspice.

Put all in a suitable pan and pour dark beer.

In the marinade put the pork knuckle. The pot put into the fridge for a day.

To prepare the slow cooker. I multivarka VITEK 4212BK. Put in a bowl multivarki knuckle and add marinade to the pork knuckle was all they closed. Set the mode "Soup" and cook 2 hours. *For those who don't like strongly pronounced taste of beer, as well as people from the brewing countries, I recommend the marinade half diluted with water. **This dish can be cooked on the stove - a pot with a knuckle just put on fire and cook for 1.5 hours after boiling over a slow fire. By the way, the marinade to dilute not necessarily - when cooking on the stove, the beer taste is almost not expressed.

The finished knuckle to get it out of the marinade, cool and remove up to X hours in the refrigerator.

To an hour to cook mashed potatoes in any convenient way for you. Bacon cut into cubes.

In multivarka set mode "Frying". Of lard in a slow cooker to cook pork rinds for 10-15 minutes. Can with the lid closed.

The bacon fat to pour the mashed potatoes, sprinkle cracklings.

And in the slow cooker for a given mode fry the shanks on all sides until Golden brown, which takes about 10-15 minutes. *If you cooked the shanks in the oven - just bake it in the oven before serving.