Homemade Sausage Making

Tried Huckleberry's recipe out today on a ten pound batch, added just a bit more garlic, paprika, and apricots. Started out with a 11.4 lb porkbutt and removed the bone in proper fashion even tho it was going to get chopped up for sausage, makes for good practice. What was left was going to be close enough to ten pounds for me so I didn't even break out my scale.



Ran the re-hydrated cots and chunks of butt thru my grinder, 51 seconds



The only food processer I know how to use came in handy on the garlic



Wasn't going to do set-up and clean-up on the meat-mixer for ten pounds.



Fresh pack of casings, says good for 25lbs, enough there to do 50 to 60lbs. Shrink-wrapped the leftovers in salt after picking the thickest ones to make the fattest sausages



My last 3-4 sausage ventures I've been using the CW tip about placing the sausages on a tray in the freezer for an hour before shrink-wrapping. This really helps maintain form and presentation, CW knows all things sausage.



Ended up with a half dozen 4-packs and two test patties that stayed in the throat of the grinder. Great flavor, thanks Huck! RAY

Huck is headed out to work for a while and he says he's going to miss eating his own sausages. From these photos, I can understand the reason why. For convenience, allow me to post Huck's recipe here:

Huckleberry's Apricot Sausage
(Fresh Sausage)

For 10 pounds of meat, use:

Kosher salt 5 tablespoons
Black pepper 1-1/2 tablespoons
Hungarian paprika 5 tablespoons
Fresh garlic 8 large cloves
Ground allspice 1-1/2 tablespoons
Dried apricot slices (2 cups)

I added about 1 quarter cup warm water to the apricot slices after dicing them into small pieces just a break up the sticky mass. Once it was loose I combined everything and mixed until I had a nice sticky sausage paste. My wife says she can't decide if she likes it or the tomatoe, basil, parmesan better. It has a very mild flavor but it's tasty. Since it is a fresh sausage there isn't much to it. Hope you like it.

Thanks Ray. I agree... they needed more garlic. Thanks to you as well Chuckwagon.

Sounds like a great recipe, and also a great show of the process!

Now Ray, be careful about the compliments on Ol' CW... Stetson might have to make larger hats if we compliment too much!

Charlie

Chuckwagon wrote:My wife says she can't decide if she likes it or the tomatoe, basil, parmesan better.

Hi CW,

Using the quoted ingredients, how much would I use of each per weight of meat?

I tried to see if the recipe was posted elsewhere but could not find it.

Would like to make some of the sausage soon.

Bubba that one is easy the recipe is for 10 pounds of meat.

Huck, great recipe, I was remiss in not including it on my original post, CW bailed me out. I went with a extra tbsp of paprika, a extra cup of cots, and four more cloves of garlic, no big difference. Thanks again, I really like that sausage.

Cranky, I could never compliment CW enough. His 7-UP brining solution for turkey and chicken has become the staple of my wife's diet, I've been ordered to not run out. I'll be using CW's Canadian Bacon recipe next week, the market ads came out today and whole pork loin is going for $1.99lb at Safeway. I'll pick up two packs on Saturday, should be 14-15 pounds, and get them brining in the fridge. We're going to drive to Las Vegas on Sunday for a couple of days, I'll be smokin' when we get back. RAY

The Big Buzzard wrote:

careful about the compliments on Ol' CW... Stetson might have to make larger hats if we compliment too much!

Garsh fellas!... I'll manage... I'll manage! Keep 'em comin'... I'll manage!

ssorllih wrote:Bubba that one is easy the recipe is for 10 pounds of meat.

Hi Ross, thank you.
The Apricot sausage has different ingredients, and when CW responded he mentioned that "his wife can't decide if she likes it better or the Tomato, Basil, Parmesan."

Is the recipe with those ingredients (Tomato, Basil, Parmesan) posted elsewhere?

Bubba, That post by CW was a quote of a Huckleberry post.
Bubba go to Hucklebery in the member list and pull up his profile and then click the line all of his posts and that will bring you to the post with the pictures. I couldn't find any recipes but his posts are very good.
Hope this helps.

Thank you Ross,

I will have a look at his posts.

The tomato basil sausage was from NorCalkid. Look him up on the site . You'll find the recipe under his posts.
Glad you enjoyed the apricot sausages Ray.

I like the look of this recipe!
Since I picked up a dehydrator last summer for the wife, we've a load of dried apricots that I can see would go very well in these sausages!

Kevin

Bubba, here's the post with the recipe for the other SD tomato/basil/parm sausage:
http://wedlinydomowe.pl/en/viewtopic.php?t=5844
Scroll about half-way down to see the actual recipe.
Thighs, skin & chicken fat make for the tastiest version....

Thank you Kevin,

That's the recipe I was trying to find.

I appreciate the link and will make some either this weekend or next.

Oh gosh kids! When I was married, years ago my wife took a snapshot of me shooting a deer with my 30-30 Winchester carbine while catching a huge Rocky Mountain rainbow trout with a bent pole and super-strength line. Both tasted like I was in paradise and I still cook over reduced coals and today, I still always brush the meat with a little cowboy's secret sauce! My goodness kids, lets all try to help each other along life's trials and learn how to support each other. This is what life is all about, believe me!

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon