Deer Summer Sausage Recipe 435 Food

GRAMPS' VENISON SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Place the venison in a large mixing bowl. Sprinkle with the curing mixture, mustard seed, garlic salt, pepper, and liquid smoke. Mix well with your hands until the mixture is evenly blended and begins to stick together, about 2 minutes.
• Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3 days, mixing well each day.
• Preheat an oven to 200 degrees F (95 degrees C).
• Divide the mixture into 5 one-pound logs, place onto a broiler pan, and place a sheet of aluminum foil on top to cover.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the logs are no longer pink in the center, and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the center reads 160 degrees F (70 degrees C), 6 to 8 hours. Turn the meat once or twice during cooking. Allow to cool before slicing thinly and serving.

DEER (VENISON) SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large bowl thoroughly combine all ingredients, and roll into a log.
• Refrigerate at least 24 hours before use. Good for 5-6 days when refrigerated.
• Sausage can also be frozen and will be good for 3-4 months. Once thawed, refrigerate and use within 2-3 days.

VENISON SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix all together thoroughly.
• Form into 2-21/2" logs about 8" long.
• Pack tightly as possible.
• Wrap in aluminum foil, shiny side inches.
• Refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Take out, turn over and pierce foil several times with a fork.
• Bake on a sprayed broiler rack over broiler pan at 325°F for 1 1/2 hour.
• Unwrap and remove to rack to finish dripping.
• Rewrap and refrigerate or freeze.

VENISON SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Cut the meat and fat into chunks that will fit into your grinder. Trim as much sinew and silverskin as you can. Put the fat into a container in the fridge. Mix the dextrose, salt and curing salt with the meats and put it in the fridge overnight. This helps develop myosin, which will give you a tighter bind when you stuff the links later.
• The next day, put your grinding equipment - blade, coarse and fine die, etc. - in the freezer. Mix the ginger, cloves and half of the remaining spices with the meat and fat. Put the mixture into the freezer and let everything chill down until it hits about 30°F or so. It won't freeze solid because of the salt. Normally, this takes about 90 minutes. While you're waiting, soak about 15 feet of hog casings in a bowl of warm water, and put the malt vinegar in the fridge.
• When the meat and fat are cold, take them out and grind through the coarse die of the grinder; I use a 10 mm plate. Test the temperature of the mixture, and if it's 35°F or colder, go ahead and grind it all again through a fine die, like a 4.5 mm. If it's warmer than 35°F, put the mix back in the freezer to chill. This might take an hour or so if you've let the meat warm up too much. Use the time to clean up, and to dissolve your starter culture in the distilled water.
• Once the sausage has been ground twice, test the temperature again to make sure it's 35°F or colder. I prefer to chill the mix down to 28°F to 32°F for this next stage. Chill the mix and when it's cold enough, take it out and add the remaining spices, the vinegar and the water-starter culture mixture. Now, mix and knead this all up in a big bin or bowl with your (very clean) hands for a solid 2 minutes-your hands will ache with cold, which is good. You want everything to almost emulsify.
• Stuff the sausage into hog casings rather loosely. For this sausage, you want long links. First cut lengths of casing about 2 feet long. Stuff each with a little more than 1 foot's worth of sausage, leaving with plenty of extra casing on either side. Do this with all the sausage before moving on.
• When you're ready, gently compress the long links. Keep an eye out for air pockets. Use a sterile needle or sausage pricker (set it aglow in your stovetop flame) to puncture the casing over all the air pockets. Gently compress the links together to squeeze out the air pockets; this takes practice. Tie the ends of the casing together in a double or triple knot.
• Hang the links from a clothes rack or somesuch. I use "S" rings you buy from the hardware store to hang them from the clothes rack rods. Now you need to ferment your links, keeping them warm and moist. I do this by putting a humidifier under the hanging sausages and then tenting the whole shebang with big garbage bags that I've sliced open on one end. I also use a water sprayer to spritz my sausages a couple times a day. Doing this prevents the casings from hardening. Keep your sausages hanging at room temperature (65 to 80°F) at about 85 percent humidity for three days.
• Move the sausages to your smoker and smoke them over very low heat for up to 4 hours of continuous smoke. It is vitally important that you do not cook your links here, so put ice in the water tray of the smoker and smoke on a cold day or in the early morning. Don't let the smoker rise above 100°F at all. If it gets too hot, open the door of the smoker or just take the links out.
• Now you need to dry your sausages and turn them into salami. Hang them in a place that is about 50°F to 60°F with about 80 to 90 percent humidity. In most cases you will need to put a humidifier under your links. I also spritz them with water once a day for the first 2 weeks. After the first week of hanging, drop the humidity to 70 to 80 percent. On the third week drop it again to 65 to 70 percent and hold it there until a total of 4 to 8 weeks has elapsed since the salami went into the chamber.
• You now have boerenmetworst. To store long-term, vacuum seal them individually and keep in the fridge. They will last indefinitely this way, and the vacuum sealing will keep them from becoming rock hard. You can also freeze them.

BEEF SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together and form into rolls 2 inches in diameter, about 4 rolls.
• Wrap each roll in aluminum foil and refrigerate 24 hours.
• Place foil wrapped rolls in water.
• Cover and simmer 1 hour or bake on a rack in oven for 1 hour at 350 degrees.
• When cool, open the foil and drain.
• Wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate.
• May be frozen either before or after cooking.
• Great to serve as an appetizer on crackers with a soft cheese.

THE BEST DEER SAUSAGE YOU'LL EVER EAT

Steps:

• Grind venison, bacon, and chicken breasts through a course plate and place in large plastic mixing tub.
• Place sausage casings in bowl of warm water to soak at this time, also make sure to have some twine on hand to tie the open ends off.
• Pour in all dry seasonings, cure, garlic powder, and peppers over the ground meat. Then top with cold water. Mix thoroughly by hand for at least 15 minutes and make sure all seasoning is mixed in and the three meats are now homogeneous. The venison will be a dark red, the bacon a light pink, and the chicken all white starting out. When it is a uniform medium red the mixing is complete. I've found that the 2 lbs of bacon and chicken add just the right amount of fat content to the deer that it will still preserve well, but it doesn't get dried out after opening a roll and putting it back in the fridge.
• (I make my own homemade chipotle powder as well. I smoke assorted hot peppers out of my garden in the summer and then dehydrate them for a couple days. Then I grind them into pepper flakes with a food processor. They keep for a couple years if dried out all the way and then placed in an air tight container.)
• Stuffing the sausage in casings is a 2 person job no mater how you do it, so make sure you have a friend handy. Add the sausage tube to the grinder and slide the casing over to fill while the 2nd person feeds the meat mixture into the machine. Make sure to use a firm grip as the casings are filled, this makes the meat pack in nicely and keeps out air bubbles. When a casing is about an inch and a half from the end, stop, twist, and tie off the end of the casing with the twine. Once all the casings are filled, place in the refrigerator for about 24 hours to cure.
• On the next day remove the sausages from the fridge and allow to warm up while you are making your smoker fire. I use a combination of charcoal and oak for the main fire and then add some hickory to add flavor to it. Apple wood works great for this too if you can find it available. Fill the water pan 3/4 full and then add a beer to top it off. Make sure any lighter fluid is burned off and that it is smoking cleaning before adding the sausages. Hang them from the top rack and make sure there is clearance between them and the water pan. Leave in the smoker for about 4 hours and check the temperature. My little smoker doesn't burn very hot, so I always end up pulling them and finishing them off in the oven at 325 for 30 to 40 minutes at the end. They are done when they reach an internal temp of 155 to 160.
• Allow to cool, and then wipe each sausage down with a paper towel and wrap in plastic wrap. Once cured and cooked they will keep in the fridge for 2 to 3 weeks if they last that long. 15 lbs of meat at one time sounds like a lot, but some how all my friends and neighbors find out every time I make this and then it is gone before I know it.

SPICY SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine all ingredients& mix well.
• Roll into four rolls of equal size.
• Wrap tightly in plastic wrap& refrigerate 24 hours.
• Unwrap rolls, place on baking rack and bake at 300 degrees for 1-1/2 hours.
• Cool& wrap in tin foil- refrigerate or freeze.