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
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| 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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