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Russian Sausage

 

This is a hot smoked version of the Russian sausage which originally cold smoked and not cooked.

 

 1. meat selection

50% lean pork (butt or ham) - 2.5 kg

30% pork fatback - 1.5 kg

20% beef - 1 kg

 

Meat total:  5 kg

salt

white pepper

sugar

cardamom

allspice

cup Madeira wine or brandy

cure #1

90 g

7.5 g

10 g

2 g

4 g

240 g

 

9 g

5 Tbs.

4 tsp

2 tsp

1 tsp

2 tsp

1 cup

 

1½ tsp

 

ingredients
 2. curing Cut meat and fat into 5-6 cm (2") pieces, mix with salt and cure #1. Fatback will be slightly salted  as cure #1 (sodium nitrite) reacts with meat myoglobin only. Place in a container, cover with a cloth and leave for 48 hours in a refrigerator.
 3. grinding Grind  meats with 3/8" (10 mm) plate.  Cut manually fatback into ⅛ " (3 mm) cubes.
 4. mixing Mix all ingredients with meat adding wine. Mix until all wine is absorbed by the mixture. Then add diced fat and mix everything together.
 5. stuffing Stuff into beef middles or fibrous synthetic casings 40 - 60 mm and form 12" (30cm) long links.
 6. drying(aging) 60 min
 7. smoking With hot smoke for 110-130 min until casings develop brown color with a red tint.
 8. baking In the last stage of smoking the sausage is baked at 75-90º C (167-194º F) until internal meat temperature is 68-70º C (154-158º F).
 9. cooling Shower with cold water for about 5 min, then lower sausage temperature to below 12º C (53º F).
Notes If curing with European Peklosol, use 80 g of Peklosol and 20 g of total salt.

 

 

 

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