This week my daughter and son in law came to visit and for a project they made Summer Sausage with dad. Weve always wanted to make sausage and have talked about it often but never get to it. While grocery shopping I spotted a kit made by Hi-Country. It contained the spices , cure , caseings and directions.The directions called for 15 pounds of game and 15 pounds of lean pork. Not having 15 pounds of lean pork we used 25 pounds game and 5 pounds ground pork suett. The game and suett were ground using a course grind. The cure and seasoning were added to water and then added and mixed by hand into the sausage mixture. The sausage mixture was allowed to rest an hour this provides time for the cure to begin breaking down the protiens in the meat.
Mean while the caseings were soaking in cool water to make them soft. Each caseing had a pre-tied end which made them nice to work with. After the meat was done resting they stuffed the caseings using a LEM sausage stuffer. The sausage was then brought and placed in an 150 degree oven. We placed the sausages directly on the racks and used cookies sheets on a rack below to catch the grease drippings. They were in the oven aprox. 2 hours then they were taken and rinsed in cool water for a quick cool down and then placed in the refridgerator over for final cooling. The kit made 7 big sausages with a little spare which I fried into pattys for breakfast.
It turned out great tasting and tangy, will make nice snacks or yummy sandwiches.
