It's mid November and once again time for deer sausage! This is my latest take on the original recipe posted at the start of this thread. Double smoked and dried for three days. Downright excellent!
Polish Venison and Pork Kielbasa
Recipe for 1kg of meat
Venison, Class I, no connective tissue, no fat, 400g
Venison, Class III with connective tissue, no fat, 100g
Pork picnic and butt meat, Class II (40% fat), 500g
Ingredients
Salt, 17g
Cure #1, 2g
Pepper, medium grind, 3g
Coriander, 1.5g
Fresh garlic, 6g
Mustard seed, whole, 4g
Juniper berries 1g.
Mace, 1g
Corn syrup solids, 2g
100ml. water
Processing Instructions
1. Cube the venison and pork, keeping the different classes of meats separate. Add the salt and #1 to the cubed meat, mix well, pack into a container, cover, and refrigerate for 48-72 hours.
2. Grind Class I venison through 10mm plate, the Class II pork through 7mm plate and class III venison twice through the 3mm plate.
3. Toast the peppercorns, coriander seeds and the juniper berries and grind finely.
4. Take the Class III ground meats, add all the spices and approximately 30% of the water. Mix and mix until you achieve a sticky but still loose paste. Add this to the other ground meats and mix well. Add the rest of the water gradually. I mixed this batch for 10 minutes in my 33lb. electric mixer.
5. Stuff into 32-40mm hog casings. Twist into neat and uniform links.
6. Set the sausage overnight in fridge or up to two hours at room temperature.
7. Preheat your smoker to 160F, let it cool, and load your sausage into it. Open top and bottom dampers wide and warm sausage at 110F for one hour. Smoke for 3 hours at 130-145F (55-65C).
8. Finish by poaching with water at a temp of170F (77C) until the internal temperature of the sausage reaches 160F (71C). Cool gently with water and hang at room temp for 2 hours before refrigerating.
9. The next day smoke the sausage for 3 hours with warm smoke, 122F (50C). Air cool and hang in a cool place for 3 days to dry. My sausage was dried in the garage at a temp of 46-52F (8-11C).
Sausage is excellent when eaten cold. If heating, bring up to temp only, don't cook again.
Smacznego!