Grilled Sausages Photo by Salim Fadhely |
Sausages
are delectable little bits that are usually made of scraps of meat and fat
leftover from butchering. The animal
that is used most often is a pig although sausages can be made from any other
meat and fat combination. Most of us are
familiar with breakfast sausage and breakfast patties. However, this is just a sampling of what else
is to be found in the world of sausages.
So are hotdogs.
Not only are sausages made from ground up meat and fat
scraps but they are also seasoned with herbs and spices to improve their
flavor. The common breakfast sausage is
seasoned with the herb “Sage” that gives it its distinctive flavor. Kielbasa is another form of sausage made from
a combination of pork and beef although the best ones are made from beef alone.
Even blood enters into the recipes for sausages, and these
sausages are common in northern Europe , and have
followed our European Ancestors to the Americas . The blood sausage has vegetable fillers added
as many other types of sausage do as well.
Commonly this filler is nothing more then oatmeal.
Another form of sausage was developed by the Indians that we
all know as Pemmican. This was made in
patties and used as survival food or when the Indians were traveling and needed
a high energy food.
The most unusual sausage the author has eaten is made from
venison by a Canadian friend that seasons them with habanera peppers, the
hottest one the Scotch Bonnet.” They’re
so hot they will make the sweat run down your back. He produces these commercially for the
islanders in the Caribbean .
Most sausages are incased in a length of natural gut,
usually a piece of sheep gut that has been thoroughly cleaned and washed. This is the most expensive product produced
in the slaughtering of animals. The
seasoned meet is forced into the length of gut under pressure by a special
machine made for this purpose although it can be accomplished with a meat
grinder that has been equipped with a special nozzle. To find the proper equipment you should
Google, sausage making supplies.
In the process of making sausages you can use your
adventurous spirit and see what you’re are able to invent yourself. More then once a really good recipe is able
to be developed commercially. Several
sausage makers have gone on to set up shop in their towns and have earned a
good living making sausages.
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