Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?

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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?

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anyone have a suggestion for a particularly good - newbie, from the basics sausage/salami making book? particularly interested in smoked ones that keep for ages without freezing.
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Post: # 158856Post Ellendra »

frozenthunderbolt wrote:anyone have a suggestion for a particularly good - newbie, from the basics sausage/salami making book? particularly interested in smoked ones that keep for ages without freezing.

I found a book called "Charcuterie", by Michael Ruhlman, its pretty good.

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I notice that most English based sausage recipe books insist that for wet sausages you always need some form of rusk - usually breadcrumbs pop up - rusk to absorb fat and flavour. But I have a bunch of French sausage recipes here and I note not a single one of them uses any form of rusk - although they do tend to use many veggies (but not of the flavour/fat absorbing kind, if you know what I mean). Has anyone ever made sausages without using rusk?
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Post: # 158922Post oldfella »

I have "The Great Book of Sausages" ISBN 0-87951-682-8 and it gives you 45 recipe's and 600 varieties from around the world and how to cook them and what to eat with them. :salute:
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Annpan wrote:Sausages in normal shops - I am in a discussion with someone on another forum and I reckon that eyes, brains, feet,etc all go into generic sausages.

Can anyone tell me otherwise, or confirm my reckoning?
brains eyes feet are just some of the things, sometimes crushed up bones, general ofle, and the extremeties of the pig sais a farmer i know

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Derbyshire farmers are well-known for their tall tales. :lol: :lol:

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According to Sir Clement Frued in Just A Minute sand although he lost to deviation as they didn't believe him
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If you have ever eaten cheap supermarket sausages then don't look at this little video, the Mrs and myself made the decision to never but anything below 80% meat ever again after watching the whole program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JETpt73 ... PL&index=2

It's a clip from the BBC series Mischief on the Worlds Worst Sausage!!! :pale:
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frozenthunderbolt wrote:anyone have a suggestion for a particularly good - newbie, from the basics sausage/salami making book? particularly interested in smoked ones that keep for ages without freezing.
If you can read Italian I've a good book, and if you like a slightly spicier sausage, here's a nice Calabrian recipe passed on by a friend.

Sopressatta

5 lb. Pork 80% lean
5 tsp. Salt
2 Tbs. Paprika, sweet
3 1/2 tsp Cayenne, ground
1 tsp. Cure (freeze dried starter culture for making salami and other cured sausage products)
1 1/2 tsp. Garlic, dry, granulated
2 tsp. Pepper, black, ground
45 mm intestine casings

Directions:
1. Lean pork trimmings (from the shoulder, fillet, ham) are cut by hand (or ground)
2. Mix meat with salt, cure and spices.
3. Stuff the mixture into large intestine casings and tie into 5 inch links
4. Air dry the sausage for 4 weeks under weights so it turns nice and compact at 60°F [15.5°C] at 60% R/H
5. Store in big barrels of vegetable oil.
6. Sausage will keep up to year and a half year this way.

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sleepyowl wrote:According to Sir Clement Frued in Just A Minute sand although he lost to deviation as they didn't believe him
I remember that! :lol: He's still sorely missed...

Sorry. Now I'm stopped for deviation. :mrgreen:
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I share in your sadness, I thought he was fantastic in it
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Post: # 159427Post SamNurse »

usually the whole pig
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