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Homemade Breakfast Sausage 2

KevinE

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This is the recipe I use. I stuff mine in casings, but you certainly don't have to do that. Note: this recipe is based on 5 lbs of Boston butt. You'd have to scale things back or up depending on how much ground pork you use. I buy whole Boston butts and do the whole cubing/grinding thing.


• 5 lbs of boneless pork butt

• 2 T non-iodized salt

• 2 t fine ground black pepper

• 2 t crushed red pepper flakes

• 1 t fresh ground nutmeg

• 1 t ground dried thyme

• 1/2 t ground ginger

• 2 T sugar (Optional – I don’t use it)

• 2 t paprika

• 1 cup ice water


1. Trim the pork, cut it into 1 inch cubes, and grind it through the fine
plate of your meat grinder.
2. Combine the spices in a container and mix with the 1 cup of ice water.
3. Pour the spice and water combination into the ground pork and mix
thoroughly for at least 2 minutes. Use your hands for mixing to assure
even distribution.
4. Once the sausage is fully mixed, stuff it into 24-26 mm natural sheep
casings.

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And this is what I stuff it with:

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That looks very good. Makes me want to go out and get a stuffer.


I think I will try your recipe next weekend.

thanks,

Dean
 
Kevin, the sausages look delicious! Thanks for sharing. (I like your kitchen too. I bet they don't find you wandering about the streets at night:chuckle:!)
 
Kevin,

Just looked this over again. Interesting there is no sage in the recipe. Although I've never made sausage, had the impression sage is a usual ingredient.

Wally
 
Thanks, Sharon. The house was built in '76. The kitchen has been through a couple of iterations since 2005 when I bought this place. I think we have finally hit on one that we'll keep.

Wally, I suppose you could put sage in it if you like, but when I stumbled upon the recipe and it didn't have sage, I figured I would like it. I'm not a big fan of sage.
 
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