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Post by steiny on Dec 11, 2006 18:04:39 GMT -5
8# venison, chunked up ready for the grinder 10 TSP Liquid smoke 1-1/4 TSP Garlic powder 5 TSP Minced Garlic 5 TSP Mustard seed 2-1/2 TSP Ground black pepper 5 TBSP Mortons tender Quick curing salt 10 TSP Sugar 5 TSP Crushed red pepper
1. Mix all the meat ans spices together thoroughly in a plastic tub. 2. Run through the grinder using the fine to medium plate, stuffing directly into casings. We like the 1-1/2" x 12" casings from Rural King. 3. Take care to get the meat tightly packed into casings (no air) then tie off the open end with metal hog rings made for such or butchers twine. 4. Set sausages in racks of a smoker so they aren't touching and slow cook at about 150 degrees. Very little if any smoke is needed, just the low temp baking does the job. 5. Using a meat thermometer, check occasionally. Cook until internal temp. reaches 150 degrees. 6. Remove them from smoker and set out on a table, in a cool room,to cool and stiffen up. 7. After they cool down, they are ready to eat, can be refrigerated, or frozen. We vac seal the ones that we freeze.
Good stuff ! I need to whack another deer.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 11, 2006 18:08:28 GMT -5
Congrats! It feels great when you get it exactly right. Trouble is, usually, we don't seem to be able to keep track of the recipes from year to year. :-(
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Post by steiny on Dec 11, 2006 18:22:41 GMT -5
I typed it up and laminated it.
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Post by Decatur on Dec 11, 2006 18:29:03 GMT -5
I've tried that too, but usually it's getting late when we're done. A couple of beers may have been drank, and nobody really cares about where the recipe is until we need it again! I'm starting a folder this year with all of our recipes in it. I made some excellent breakfast sausage last year, that I would like to make again. Now, if I could only find that recipe! ;d
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Post by steiny on Dec 11, 2006 21:51:30 GMT -5
........... sounds like you could have been butchering with us.
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Post by DEERTRACKS on Dec 13, 2006 7:10:24 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing. Sounds good.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Jan 8, 2007 19:39:42 GMT -5
Steiny,
All the recipes I ever came across had pork added. I see you didn't add anything. Did this come out dry?
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Post by steiny on Jan 8, 2007 20:54:28 GMT -5
Tried pork the first go round. When we cooked the summer sausage in the smoker that caused problems. The pork fat leaked out of the casings, made things messy, and the sausages shrunk up, making wrinkled looking summer sausage.
I do put some pork in my italian sausage and burger, but it screws up the summer sausage.
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Post by Hoosier Hunter on Jan 8, 2007 21:35:45 GMT -5
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