Jadgwurst

Jadgwurst - German Hunter’s sausage

Meats Metric US
lean pork butt 500 g 1.10 lb.
lean fresh bacon 500 g 1.10 lb.

Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of meat

salt 18 g 3 tsp.
Cure #1 2.5 g ½ tsp.
pepper 1.0 g ½ tsp.
coriander 1.0 g ½ tsp.
mace 0.5 g ⅓ tsp.
mustard, ground 2.0 g 1 tsp.
ginger, ground 0.5 g ½ tsp.

Instructions

  1. Grind all meat through 3/8” (10 mm) grinder plate.
  2. Mix meat with all ingredients.
  3. Stuff into 50 mm (2”) fibrous casings.
  4. Hang at room temperature for 30 min.
  5. Place sausages in smokehouse pre-heated to 130° F (54° C) for 1 hour (no smoke applied).
  6. Hot smoke for 30 minutes only.
  7. Increase smokehouse temperature (no smoke applied) to 170° F and cook sausages until internal temperature of 154° F (68° C) is obtained OR cook in water at 167-172° F (75-78° C) for about 1 hour.
  8. Cool sausages in cold water and hang at room temperature.
  9. Refrigerate.