Bryant
I been making sausage a several years now as far as seasonings go I used a packed seasoning from brookshire brothers in salado for several years and made great tastiing sausage pan and link m but somthing was wrong with thelast batch we made and still have 2 bags of the stuff in the freezer,
the last few years been using the high mountain seasonings(breakfast mix) you can get from academy or online for bigger batches this year we made some of the snack stick and summer sausage and it was great stuff.
http://shop.himtnjerky.com/online/product.php?productid=54&cat=251&page=2.submit(); i am going to add about 5 tbl spoons of crushed black pepper to this next batch of venison/ wild sow a 15 pound batch we are going to make tomorrow maybe to thi evening always cook a little and taste make sure you brown it good to bring out the seasoning
becareful with sage it get stronger in the freezer some receipies say sprinkle the seasonings over the meat my experiance show its eaiser to add it to the water then mix it i have found when mixing its easy to use a NEW prop type paint mixer and a 1/2 drill
cold cold meat works best even slightly frozen doesnt hurt and I like to run Ice through the grinder right before crushed of course to keep blades sharp
cleaner the meat smaller the chunk less problems you will have with cloging either or the tendons gristil sinew will give you fits just clean the plates and start again
keep it cold gring the meat and put it in the freezer as you go then when you start mixing and stuffing you will be happier
keep it cold cold is your friend
stuffers the horn style to me are good for only trot line weights,, I lovethe hell out of our LEM screw crank stuffer
casing we get our hog gut from HEB the cologen casings are crap and lie eating summer sausage casing
we are going to try the leggs seasonings later this year on a batch of straight pork sausage
I think its number 10 also
Ill have to ask Creek what number for sure
http://www.eldonsausage.com/topdetail.asp?product_id=AC-010C heres a link where you can get the leggs
hope this helps heck just figured out the post was from october
