Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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. 

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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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 knowAnnpan 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?
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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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!!!
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It's a clip from the BBC series Mischief on the Worlds Worst Sausage!!!

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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
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.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.
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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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
I remember that!sleepyowl wrote:According to Sir Clement Frued in Just A Minute sand although he lost to deviation as they didn't believe him

Sorry. Now I'm stopped for deviation.

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I share in your sadness, I thought he was fantastic in it
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Re: Can someone tell me what goes into sausages?
usually the whole pig
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