Homemade Sausage Making

For a good six weeks I have been trying to get pork livers to make Liver Sausage. It has always been difficult. We have 20+ butchers and numerous supermarkets in town. Only two of them have it very occasionally. Both have been waiting for ages to get some. I have developed and adapted my own recipe for liver sausage. In general the pork's liver is soaked for an hour, sliced then poached. If I chicken livers (which I have to order) do I need to soak it for as long and then poach it before mixing it with the rest of the ingredients and then poach the sausage for 50-90 mins?

Hi Mark,
Wow, I wonder why Australia would have a problem with the availability of pork liver? You said it has always been difficult. Shucks pal, turn the table on those suppliers and use good ol` beef (calves) liver. Lots of good ol` Polish "Polska Kiszka Watrobiana" (blood sausage with liver), has been made with the blood and livers from cattle. Calves liver should be cut into half-inch slices then soaked in cold water a couple of hours then drained. I`ve got a great recipe for the stuff if you`d like it.
If you use chicken livers, remember that liver from poultry must be washed well and then placed in boiling water for cooking before they are cooled and put through the grinder. Let us know what you decide to do and be sure to post a few photos of your sausages.

Best Wishes,
Chuckwagon

Have you tried checking at an Asian market. I've found that many offal products such as livers, ears, duck tongues, etc are available all the time without special order.

I have been in contact with the two best (by that I mean their pork products are to die for) pork free range farms in the South Island of New Zealand about getting hold of Pork Livers. One of them (my favourite) had this to say "You will have great difficulty obtaining pork liver in New Zealand. All pigs killed at a registered abattoir have their livers removed.
Sorry I cannot be of more assistance with this." There is a home kill butcher (licensed butcher) who is way up country who recons that he may be able to help. It is amazing. I can get lamb kidney's, mountain oysters (sheep's testicals, but not pork or cow liver's @#$%. The only type of liver I can get is chicken (was a mission to find the butcher) or duck (from a specialist farm). I wonder what happens to the liver; pet food.