First time making sausages, woohoo!

[amandaandherveg]

My neighbour and I made sausages for the first time today. It was great fun and they even looked like proper sausages . We just made a few pounds but plan on making a big batch after we source some tasty and decently priced pork. We made Pork, Sage and Apple and Lamb and Redcurrant. Going to have them for tea with new tatties and Piglet Willie's lovely Red Onion Marmalade. yum.

[Lizzy]

Well done, I have fancied making sausages for a long time, but not got around to making them. Do you have a recipe?

Liz

[amandaandherveg]

I found a lot of recipes on a sausage making website, the ones we made today were just bits and pieces we had lying around. Going to make Pork, Mustard and Honey next time. I know a chap who's Dad rears Tamworth Pigs, going to get in touch with him to see if we can get some pork butt, shoulder and belly. Shame there's no sun for barbecues.

[Lizzy]

Thanks, I will have a look and hopefully have a go.

Liz

[amandaandherveg]

Thought I should tell you about Saturday nights Sausage Making. I'd borrowed my neighbours Kenwood Chef, mincer, etc and was all set to make a batch of sausages using the organic pork that I'd bought.

I had decided to make Pork sausages with Bail and Sun Dried tomatoes. Everything was going well until I realised that I'd got the seasonings and rusk quantities mixed up. I had to x's the recipe by 7 to even up the seasoning. So, it went well, they're very tasy which is just as well as I have 14lbs of them!

[Hilary B]

I only ever made sausages when we kept pigs. Did quite a lot then. Important rule, NEVER put them into skins until you have 'tested' a small sample of the mix, fried as a mini-burger.
I never bought 'rusk'. I occasionally used tiny quantities of breadcrumbs, but VERY little, and not in every mix (only if it looked too 'wet' without).

[amandaandherveg]

Now that's sensible advice Hilary. They were tasty, but I felt they were a bit too rusky, I'll make the mini burger/patty next time though.

[lynda66]

where did you get the skins from? i've thought of making sausages, but dunno how to get them.

[amandaandherveg]

I got them from these folk.....

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