Gothaer
sausage
| Meats |
Metric |
US |
| lean pork |
800 g |
1.76 lb. |
| beef |
200 g |
0.44 lb. |
Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat
| salt |
23 g |
4 tsp. |
| Cure #1 |
2.5 g |
½ tsp |
| dextrose (glucose) |
10.0 g |
2 tsp. |
| black pepper |
3.0 g |
1½ tsp. |
| F-LC culture |
0.24 g |
use scale |
Instructions
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Grind pork through 3/16” plate (5 mm). Grind beef through 1/8” (3 mm) plate.
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Mix all ingredients with meat.
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Stuff into beef middles or fibrous casings 40-60 mm, 20” long.
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Ferment at 24-30º C (75-86º F) for 24 hours, 90-85% humidity.
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Introduce warm smoke (43º C, 110º F), 70% humidity, for 6 hours. Gradually increase smoke temperature until internal meat temperature of 140º F (60º C) is obtained.
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For a drier sausage: dry for 3 days at 22-16º C (60-70º F), 65-75% humidity or until desired weight loss has occurred.
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Store sausages at 10-15º C (50-59º F), <75% humidity.