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Rosvopaisti (Finnish lit. “robber’s roast”) is roast meat cooked in a cooking pit. It is said to have Mongolian origins and to have become generally known through Veikko Huovinen’s novel Lampaansyöjät (Lamb Eaters).Rosvopaisti can be made with almost any meat: lamb mutton pork bear reindeer elk etc. The pit preferably soil of sand or clay is about one metre long 70 cm wide and a half metre deep where stones or bricks are heated up for several hours.