California Farm Pungent Smoked Sausage

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Half pound pork sausages with fresh lean pork shoulder ham, fresh pork belly and spices, 70% lean/30% fat, cold smoked over oak wood to concentrate the meat flavor, served in winter dinner soups and on top of one pan mashed potato dinners with sauerkraut , kale, carrot, applesauce, mustard greens, cabbage, endive, spinach, swiss chard, imparting its special flavor to hearty winter dinners.

California Farm Pungent Smoked Sausage

Half pound pork sausages with fresh lean pork shoulder ham, fresh pork belly and spices, 70% lean/30% fat, cold smoked over oak wood to concentrate the meat flavor, served in winter dinner soups and on top of one pan mashed potato dinners with sauerkraut , kale, carrot, applesauce, mustard greens, cabbage, endive, spinach, swiss chard, imparting its special flavor to hearty winter dinners.

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Ingredients

Prep 1 hour, dry 1 day, Smoke overnight
4 people, 16 sausages, 32 dinners
  1. Sausage stuffing:
  2. 1Whole pork shoulder ham, after skin and bone removed, 6 pounds
  3. 1/2 poundfresh porkbelly (bacon)
  4. 1 Pintwater, or red wine
  5. Spices:
  6. 45 gramsSea salt
  7. 15 gramsPepper
  8. 8 gramsPink sodium nitrite salt
  9. 6 gramsNutmeg
  10. 6 gramsbrown sugar
  11. 3 gramsCoriander
  12. 2 gramsground mace
  13. 1 gramground Cloves
  14. 1 gramGinger powder
  15. Other:
  16. 16Hog sausage casings, 38-42 mm diameter
  17. Chimney mesquite charcoal
  18. 1 poundwalnut wood chips, soaked
  19. Vinegar and olive oil to wash and oil smoked sausages
  20. Equipment: barbecue, sausage grinder, bread maker, sausage stuffer, tie strings, digital scale
  21. Cost: $1 per sausage, 50 cents per dinner

Cooking Instructions

Prep 1 hour, dry 1 day, Smoke overnight
  1. 1

    Trim shoulder ham and pork belly meat in 1” square, 6” long strips, mix spices in pint of water or red wine, marinade overnight. Grind 10 strips of shoulder ham and 1 strip of pork belly in meat grinder with 6 mm coarse plate, mix ground meat with any leftover spice mix. Homogenize in kitchen blender.

  2. 2

    Stuff pork sausage mix into half pound size casings. Double knot both sides, one inch double string between ends, so sausage dries in rounds, and fits whole inside dutch ovens and pans when cooking.

  3. 3

    Hang sausages to dry one day at room temperature to allow spices to activate fermentation. Nitrite dissipates in eight weeks, some people wait eight weeks before eating nitrate, nitrite, or salpeter cured meats.

  4. 4

    Wipe sausages dry. Cold smoke sausages 10 hours overnight below 100F degrees. Cool. Wash outside casing with vinegar, rub with olive oil, store in pantry to dry.

  5. 5

    To serve the smoked sausage for dinner, boil water, turn off flame. Lay sausage in water, ten minutes, then lay on top of one pan dinners and soups, stews, while preparing them, to impart smoke flavor, lid on. Serve sliced in thin rounds with dinner, mustard on the side. 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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Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
I use red wine, tequila and sherry wine as fillers for dry meat sausages with cure #2

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