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Venison Summer Sausage

Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: American

Ingredients
  

  • Hi Mountain home sausage making kit.
  • 24 lbs Ground venison or beef
  • 6 lbs Ground pork - 6 lbs max

Equipment

  • I use a LEM #8 sausage grinder. https://amzn.to/3Zoae16
  • Hi Mountain home sausage making kit. https://amzn.to/4sL69BP
  • Cooler

Method
 

  1. Grind the venison and pork if needed
  2. Weigh to see how much meat
  3. Combine meats and seasoning in large tub
  4. Add 24 oz ice water
  5. Mix with your hands
  6. Make small balls to run through grinder a second time
  7. Form into balls
  8. Drop balls into casings to stuff them
  9. Push down to remove air pockets
  10. Seal up open end of sausage casing
  11. Store in cooler 24 hours to cure
  12. Smoke sausages until they reach internal temperature of 156 degrees
  13. Let meat cool in a cooler with ice packs overnight
  14. Cut sausages into 1 lb size
  15. Freezer seal and refrigerate

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