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[SWE] Christmas cocktail sausage

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 17:45
by Stickan
Hi folks
Christmas is round the corner and that`s when the urge to making sausage is on top for me. I and my colleague have spent a few weekends to this business. This weekend we made a Christmas cocktail sausage inspired by some typical Christmas spices. To make it easy we bought already grinded meat 50% beef and 50% pork. The fat content was 17%. We also peeled an orange with a potato peeler (make sure that the white doesn`t come along). Then dry the skin and grind it in a mortar.
Recipe:
Christmas cocktail sausages
2000g beef/pork 17% fat.
45g Sea salt
5g Cure nr.1
30g Cranberry jam or red currant jam
10g Orange peel grinded
10g Onion powder
5g Garlic powder
2g White pepper
1g Cayenne pepper
1,5g Cloves
7g Cognac
100g Beer
How to do:
Regrind the semi frozen meat.
Add all the ingredients and mix well, then knead it on the table to a sticky paste.
Stuff into 26 mm sheep casings and tie off at 2 inch sausages or smaller.
Smoke with Cherry wood and a chunk of juniper wood for 2 hours at 140F (60C).
Meanwhile, heat water in a big pan to 175F (80C). Turn of the heat and put the sausages in the pan for 15 minutes. Cool the sausages in cold water.
When its time for the Christmas smorgardsbord, fry the sausages in butter and serve.
When you bite the sausages it`s an explosion of Christmas in your mouth.

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In the smoker :smile:
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After cooling, ready to fry
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Enjoy
Stickan

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 17:52
by ssorllih
Very nice.
Here's a money saving hint, Crochet cotton comes in plain white and in several weights. You don't really need butchers weight twine to link sausage.

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 19:38
by Stickan
Hi Ssorlih
Good advice, I will search at the sewing shop :smile:
Regards
Stickan

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 21:36
by Chuckwagon
Thanks for sharing your recipe Stican. I'll put it in the MRI on Sunday night. It looks quite unique! Did you know that the oils in an orange peeling are volatile? Light a candle then bend a peeling in half so some of the oils spritz into the flame. Its amazing.

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon

Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 23:24
by Stickan
Yes Chuckwagon, as kids we use to play with the orange peelings and candles. My mom didn't liked it :roll: :wink:
regards Stickan

Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 15:15
by Keymaster
Vwry Nice job on them sausages, Thanks for sharing your recipe!!!