Thursday, December 13, 2012

The process of making the sausage

So my husband and I are going to work on a few new sausages today. We do
everything in 3 lb batches, even when we try them the first time. The meat we
use is rib end, because they are lean, flavorful and easy to work with. We do
not add any fat, and people seem to like them that way.

The first sausage we are trying is a Garlic Rosemary. Here is the recipe as we
will try it today.

3 lb pork
1/2 T garlic
1/2 T rosemary
1/2 T Salt
1/2 T pepper

This should produce a very mild sausage, but since we are working with pungent
ingredients I would rather err on the side of caution and adjust for the next
batch.

The second recipe is one that was on the internet, for English Bangers. This
recipe starts with 2 1/2 lb lean pork and 1 lb fat. As much as I understand the
purpose of the fat, unless the sausage suffers without it, I will not add it.
It is quite possible that I will add the fat to the next batch because of the
bread crumbs. So, we will start with the same 3 lbs of pork as we always do,
and go from there. Here is the recipe.

1 1/2 c dry bread crumbs
1 1/4 c chicken stock(we will use as little of this as possible because wet
sausages are a pain to case)
1 1/4 t white pepper
1/4+ t salt
1/4 t ginger
1/4 t sage
3/8+ t nutmeg(1/8 t nutmgeg+1/4 t mace-replace with nutmeg)

The + is for rounded because the conversions would have been too scant
otherwise.
I will let you know how this goes.




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