How to Make Sausages
Sausage Making Equipment
Grinder/Stuffer
Plastic cutting board
Sanitizing Solution Chlorine solution Strength
100 mg/L: half-teaspoon bleach in 1 litre of
water for sanitizing utensils in the sink
200 mg/L: 1-teaspoon bleach in 1 litre of
water spray bottle for sanitizing all surfaces
and equipment
Prior to using sanitizing solution utensils,
surfaces such as countertops and
food contact surfaces such as cutting
boards must be washed using warm
water and a detergent and rinsed
using clean water.
Weigh scale
Sharp knifes and sharpening stone
String
Containers and trays
Hairnet and gloves
Sausage Making Ingredients.
One deboned, skin off Berkshire pork shoulder. Keep Meat Cold at all Times
Hog casings size 32/35. (Get some from your butcher)
15 grams salt per kg
1-teaspoon black pepper per kg.
One 750 ml bottle of wine per 10 kg of meat.
One lemon (slices for warm water to soak casings)
Method
Wash well the hog casing and immerse in warm water with a few lemon slices. Untangle carefully.
Trim off all sinew, and impurities in the meat
Cut into long strips that fit easily in grinder
Ground the meat
Mix well with salt pepper and wine
Form sausage mixture into palm size balls
Stuff the casings
Link the sausages
Hang to dry in a cold ventilated room or rest in fridge for a few hours
Cut into individual links
Freeze if not consumed in a couple days