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The task at hand: Make 50 pounds of venison sausage — 15 pounds of summer sausage, 10 pounds of snack sticks and 25 pounds of Polish sausage — over the next day and a half. Deer season was ...
Place venison, sherry and jalapeno peppers in a pressure cooker and cook for 35 minutes once the pressure builds. Allow to cool and remove peppers. Reserve all liquid in the pressure cooker.
A variety of fresh meats may be used for making sausage, the most common are from beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey, and game. [5] Meat should be fresh, high quality, have the proper lean-to-fat ratio and good binding qualities. The meat should not be contaminated with bacteria or other microorganisms.
Salting could be combined with smoking to produce bacon in peasant homes. Instructions for preserving (salting) freshly killed venison in the 14th century involved covering the animal with bracken as soon as possible and carrying it to a place where it could be butchered, boiled in brine, and dry salted for long term preservation in a barrel.
Charcuterie: The Craft of Salting, Smoking and Curing is a 2005 book by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn about using the process of charcuterie to cure various meats, including bacon, pastrami, and sausage. The book received extremely positive reviews from numerous food critics and newspapers, causing national attention to be brought to the ...
The ingredients found in a fermented sausage include meat, fat, bacterial culture, salt, spices, sugar and nitrite. Nitrite is commonly added to fermented sausages to speed up the curing of meat and also impart an attractive colour while preventing the growth of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria which causes botulism .
Summer sausage is an American term for a sausage that can be kept without refrigeration until opened. Summer sausage is made of beef , pork , or sometimes venison . [ 1 ] Summer sausage is fermented , and can be dried or smoked , and while curing ingredients vary significantly, curing salt is almost always used.
Curing can be traced back to antiquity, and was the primary method of preserving meat and fish until the late 19th century. Dehydration was the earliest form of food curing. [1] Many curing processes also involve smoking, spicing, cooking, or the addition of combinations of sugar, nitrate, and nitrite. [1] Slices of beef in a can