Home Made Sausages

[katynewbie]

 ;D

Have just acquired a lovely old fashioned mincer (Spong) which I am looking forward to using. Does anyone make thier own bangers? Where do you get skins? Any fave recipes?

[katynewbie]

[MikeB]

Get the skins from the butchers, ask him for intestines.  After a bit got fed up keep going to the butchers and made skinless sausages.  Didn't need the sausage machine then I rolled them by hand.

[Hyacinth]

Katie, this is from my food faves - some recipes in there..

http://www.sausagelinks.co.uk/recipe_category.asp

btw...if you 'acquired' your Spong from an Oxfam shop - it's mine :o not that I want it back permanently, but please could we time-share? ;D

I'm assuming that you're using the Spong for the mincing, but how are you thinking of filling the skins if you get them, btw?

[tim]

With a teaspoon of course? So long as you have someone to hold the other end!

[legless]

i get my skins from here

http://www.sausagemaking.org/

recipe wise i go vaguely by hugh's one in river cottage cookbook for the meat and rusk ratios and then make the rest up. normally do pork and leek, a herby type and thai style one with ginger, lemongrass, chilli and garlic

[tim]

Sounds great.
Note that the champion bangers in the UK are made with locally baked bread rather than rusk??

[legless]

i use oatmeal.

[Hyacinth]

With a teaspoon of course? So long as you have someone to hold the other end!

without a purpose-built machine, a home-made forcing bag?

[katynewbie]

 ::)

Trust Lishka to spot the chink in my culinary armour! Had not got as far, thoughtwise, as how to fill the skins! Just full of excited enthusiasm about the potential! Mincer came via lovely woman on another website who has one or two to spare, she found them at car boots.

Thanks for the link legless, will investigate further!

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