Homemade Sausage Recipe
We love fresh sausage so we decided to try making our own pork, fennel and sage breakfast sausage. We grew the sage but if you're on the road and can find a local farmers market, any number of fresh h...
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First time we made sausage, it was way too dry, and didn't have a lot of taste considering all the spices I put in. Figured out it didn't have enough fat in it. That first time we used about 1.5 lbs. of fat. I worked up to 40% fat, and it was still a touch dry. I'm from NC and would eat fat back sandwiches as a kid, so fat is no big deal to me. However, I just can't get to the 50-55% fat that is in commercially produced sausage. We made Bratwurst, pork and garlic, beef and Guinness, breakfast, and they were good, just not as much fat as store bought products. That made us think about what we buy now.......
