California Farm Smoked Bacon Sausage

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Old family recipe, sausage made from lean pork meat mixed with smoked bacon, boiled, cooled, then cold smoked. Made to be eaten in a breadroll. Ground Lean pork meat mixed with potato starch, shredded carrot, chopped smoked bacon fat pieces, spices, boiled, cold smoked and dried. The oak wood cold smoking method imparts the same flavor as smoking expensive fish like salmon or eel, so this one is called “smoked eel sausage”, a delicacy. Wrap in two halves of sour dough bread roll , eat like a hotdog.

California Farm Smoked Bacon Sausage

Old family recipe, sausage made from lean pork meat mixed with smoked bacon, boiled, cooled, then cold smoked. Made to be eaten in a breadroll. Ground Lean pork meat mixed with potato starch, shredded carrot, chopped smoked bacon fat pieces, spices, boiled, cold smoked and dried. The oak wood cold smoking method imparts the same flavor as smoking expensive fish like salmon or eel, so this one is called “smoked eel sausage”, a delicacy. Wrap in two halves of sour dough bread roll , eat like a hotdog.

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Ingredients

Overnight cure, 1 hour cook, 75 minute smoke
2 people, 5 pounds, 10 sausages
  1. 4 poundsLean fresh pork, Boston Butt or similar shoulder cut
  2. 1 poundSmoked bacon fat
  3. 10hog sausage casings, 9” long
  4. 1/2 CupPotato starch
  5. 1/2 cupshredded carrot
  6. Tbsgarlic powder
  7. Tbsonion powder
  8. Tsppaprika powder
  9. Tspcoriander
  10. 1.75% of total weight in sea salt
  11. 0.25% of total weight in curing salt #2
  12. Tspfennel
  13. Tspdextrose sugar
  14. 1/2 tspmace
  15. 1/2 tspnutmeg
  16. 1/2 tspblack pepper
  17. 1/2 tspcardemon
  18. 1/2 tspchili powder
  19. Poundsoaked walnut wood chips
  20. Fire starter full of mesquite charcoal
  21. Equipment: meat grinder, bread maker, sausage stuffer, dutch oven, barbecue smoker
  22. Cost: pork $10, other $2, $2.40 per sausage

Cooking Instructions

Overnight cure, 1 hour cook, 75 minute smoke
  1. 1

    Smoke bacon fat in barbecue, low temperature, few hours or overnight. Cut into small 1/4” dice.

  2. 2

    Mix ground pork with diced chopped smoked bacon fat. First, rub potato starch and shredded carrot and spices on the lean pork meat: Pepper, coriander, ginger, mace, garlic, nutmeg, fennel, paprika, onion powder, cardemom, chili. Sprinkle water while mixing till you have a smooth rub. Rest overnight. Next morning, add salt, grind meat, mix with diced bacon. Homogenize in bread mixer.

  3. 3

    Stuff half pound mix in sausage casing. Tie both ends securely with double knot twine. Heat sausages slowly in dutch oven iimmersed in water, so the diced bacon melts into the meat mix but the sausage does not boil and the casing does not burst. Cool.

  4. 4

    Put in cold smoker, on hot mesquite charcoal covered with soaked oak chips, 200F degrees, smoke 75 minutes. Cool sausages, wash with vinegar, rub with olive oil, store in pantry. Enjoy.

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I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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