Homemade Sausage Making

After a couple of unsuccessful attempts I wanted to try my hand at mustard again. I did a quick search of the ol' wide web of the world and found a trusted source with what looked to be a solid recipe. Below is my interpretation of whole-grain recipe from Hank over at hunter angler gardener cook

Hard Cider Whole-Grain Mustard

Makes about 1 cup.

Prep Time: 12 hours

6 tablespoons brown mustard seeds
1/2 cup mustard powder (I used Coleman's)
3 tablespoons apple-cider vinegar
1/2 cup hard apple cider (homemade by my buddy Mike S.)
2 teaspoons salt
1 tablespoon honey

I took about 2/3 of the mustard seeds and ground them up chunky-like in my mortar and pestle because I feel I have more control over the final grind and can stop when I get to the right grind size. Then I just mixed everything together well with a whisk and tossed it in the fridge to get all happy-like overnight.

Here is the finished product dabbed on some eye-talian sausage, which I'm happy to say is a success. (Not the best pairing but I can deal with it) This stuff is no sissy mustard, it's some seriously high-test clear your nasal passages kinda pungent but in a good way.

I'm going to try another batch in the near future with some hops. I'll also leave more whole mustard seeds and increasing the honey by about 50% give or take.

That looks better than good!

A real winner Jer!
Good, good, good

Thank you gentlemen. I think one of the hurdles in cooking is finding a stepping off point. Now that I found something that works I can start riffing on it and finding different ways to tweak it.

I'll also leave more whole mustard seeds and increasing the honey by about 50% give or take.


Would you less mustar seed or more mustard? Where do you buy black and brown mustrad seeds.

I get the mustard seeds at either a middle eastern market or bulk section of my local health food store. I just finished up the first batch and I'm ready to try batch #2. I'll try adding more honey on the next go-round.

Jerbear,
You got me really interested, the mustard looks great, I like home made better any day.
Lets know about recipe # 2 with more honey.
I will get my dearest wife interested, at least it will keep her busy and off my back.
Thanks Mate!!!
Regards,
Jan.

Being a authentic eye-tal-ee-an I have to say that mustard looks great and I look forward to copying your recipe. Mustard is tricky stuff and not to be taken lightly, as I'm sure you know. I'll finally have reason to use my wife's mortar and pistol! She's had every kitchen gadjet known to man for the last 40 years but seems to have problems when "ingredients" become involved. She made hard-boiled eggs today without starting a house fire, a great moral victory. RAY

JerBear

I wiped up a batch of this today and it turned out extremely good. I threw a package of my smoked kielbasa on the gaser for a bit and cut it into 1 inch chunks. Gave it a squirt of the mustard and it made for some great snacks. I did double the honey in it. I've tried a couple of different mustard recipes and never really liked them. I will definitely be making this again.

Thanks for sharing,

Mike