Best Homemade Sausage recipes ever

[Bubblingbrooks]

We use many of the recipes on this site each year, when we process our wild game.
http://www.3men.com/sausage.htm
The only changes we make, are if the recipe calls for MSG, we leave that out, and double the spice amount.

Have fun!

 

[Wifezilla]

http://www.3men.com/sausage.htm#Chorizo
Mmmmmmmmm!!!

 

[CrimsonRose]

I've never made homemade sausage before but plan too next batch of rabbits we process...

So questions... where do I start? what recipe would you recommend for a breakfast type sausage using rabbit meat?

I have a hand crank meat grinder I picked up at an auction and I have a sausage gun with tube to stuff them with...

So do I cook the meat first? or just grind it raw with spices... I know rabbit meat is lean so I thought of adding some bacon fat in for flavor... Do I need to cook the bacon then add the fat I get out of the pan to the sausage recipe or do I just grind up some bacon with the rabbit meat all together?

Also what do you use for castings? and where do you get them... we don't have a local butcher that I know of... and I would rather not use rabbit guts If I can keep from it... (I think I would be squeamish about cleaning them out)

 

[big brown horse]

YUM!!!

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Choose whatever recipe you want, and do a small test batch with it. You can buy a bit of meat from the store to do this if you do not want to waste homegrown.

Grind your meat and add the fat ratio you want, and then hadnmix in the spices.
If the reipe calls for powdered milk and water, I just use whole raw milk.

As to casings, we buy the sausage casings, but the rest we just package up just like hamburger.
Real casings are spendy! Plus we do not have a stuffer.
You can talk to you rlocal grocery store butcher about finding casings.

Follow the recipe for how to process. We heat smoke our summer sausage according to the directions, but freeze everything else raw.

I time, we want to build a proper smoke house, so we can cold smoke sausages. Pepperoni and salami on my list when we build one!

 

[freemotion]

I've never made homemade sausage before but plan too next batch of rabbits we process...

So questions... where do I start? what recipe would you recommend for a breakfast type sausage using rabbit meat?

I have a hand crank meat grinder I picked up at an auction and I have a sausage gun with tube to stuff them with...

So do I cook the meat first? or just grind it raw with spices... I know rabbit meat is lean so I thought of adding some bacon fat in for flavor... Do I need to cook the bacon then add the fat I get out of the pan to the sausage recipe or do I just grind up some bacon with the rabbit meat all together?

Also what do you use for castings? and where do you get them... we don't have a local butcher that I know of... and I would rather not use rabbit guts If I can keep from it... (I think I would be squeamish about cleaning them out)

Casings give me the shivers....and not the good shivers! I don't use them when I make sausage, and I only have one recipe. Grind your meat raw, and if you are adding bacon, add it raw, too....that will be YUMMY! I wouldn't add too much spice at first, keep it simple, so that the bacon flavor will really come through.

You could also mix in leftover bacon fat that has been well-chilled.

We just mix our herbs and flavorings into the raw meat/fat and put it into the fridge overnight to blend the flavors, then we cook it all up the next day, crumbled, and freeze it like that. Then it is easy to use in eggs, pizza, quiche, spaghetti sauce, and I like to make a soup and then put some frozen chunks of cooked sausage in a bowl and pour the boiling soup over it. The flavor of the sausage is not cooked out into the soup this way, and the soup is instantly a perfect eating temperature.

I do want to make hotdogs and pepperoni so I will need some "fake" casings.....

 

[noobiechickenlady]

http://www.3men.com/sausage.htm#Chorizo
Mmmmmmmmm!!!

And boudin!!

 

[dacjohns]

Might need to watch this thread.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi!
Thanks for the link!

Lisa

 

[Wildsky]

I made Boerewors a while back, and am planning more real soon. LOVE it.

I need more casings - I use pork.