Old Fashioned Country Sausage Recipes

COUNTRY SAUSAGE RECIPE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients except the olive oil into a large bowl and massage with your hands until well combined. Divide the meat mixture into eight equally sized patties.
• Put the olive oil in a large cast-iron pan or skillet over medium-high heat.
• Pan-fry the patties for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until golden brown, making sure there is enough space between each patty.

GRANNY'S OLD FASHIONED PORK SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Trim any excess fat from the pork and cut into chunks. Place the meat through a meat grinder. Combine the ground meet and remaining ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Shape the sausage into patties. The sausage can be cooked immediately but for best flavor wrap the sausage patties in plastic wrap and freeze for 1-2 weeks. Thaw before cooking.

OLD FASHIONED ENGLISH BREAKFAST SAUSAGE (OR SAUSAGE PATTIES)

Steps:

• Place all ingredients in a large bowl,mixing well to assure spices are evenly distributed.
• Form into patties, refrigerate several hours to allow spices to blend.
• Fry over medium heat until well browned and cooked through, with no pink showing.
• NOTE this mixture may be stuffed into small casings, making 3-4 inch links, your guests will be so impressed!

SAUSAGE GRAVY I

Steps:

• Brown sausage in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Set aside, leaving the drippings in the skillet.
• Mix bacon grease into the sausage drippings. Reduce heat to medium, combine with flour, and stir constantly until mixture just turns golden brown.
• Gradually whisk milk into skillet. When the mixture is smooth, thickened, and begins to bubble, return the sausage to skillet. Season with salt and pepper. Reduce heat, and simmer for about 15 minutes.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE GRAVY

Steps:

• In a skillet on medium heat cook pork, onion, green pepper, red pepper flakes, and garlic until pork is crumbly. Drain off excess fat, but leave a small amount.
• Combine butter, salt, and pepper with the meat mixture and stir until butter melts. Slowly sift flour over the top. Mix gently and allow mixture to cook for 5 minutes. It will burn, so do not let it sit unguarded. Don't forget to scrape the bottom of the pan. Add the sage and thyme.
• Slowly stir in milk, about a half a cup at a time, and incorporate it well. When the mixture thickens, add more milk. Do not let it boil vigorously, or it will burn. Add chicken bullion and let cook for five minutes. Again, if it thickens too much, add more milk. Adjust taste with more salt and pepper if needed.
• Just before serving, add the parsley, and about a 1/4 cup more milk; the gravy will thicken quickly as it cools.

HOME-STYLE COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the first 10 ingredients. Crumble turkey over mixture and mix well. Shape into eight 1/2-in. thick patties., In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, cook patties for 4-6 minutes on each side or until juices run clear.

FRESH COUNTRY PORK SAUSAGE WITH PEPPER AND SAGE

Steps:

• Combine 1/3 pork and 1/3 pork fat in processor. Using on/off turns, process mixture until finely ground. Transfer to large bowl. Repeat with remaining pork and pork fat in 2 more batches. Sprinkle water, sage, salt, and red and black pepper over pork. Using moistened hands, mix sausage just until blended. Wrap sausage in plastic and chill. (Sausage can be prepared up to 3 days ahead. Keep refrigerated.)
• Form sausage into 3-inch-diameter patties. Heat heavy large skillet over medium heat. Fry patties in batches until browned and cooked through, about 5 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels; keep warm. Transfer to platter and serve.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• If your meat grinder comes with a coarse and a fine grind attachment, grind the meat first through the coarser disk. Put all the remaining ingredients in a spice mill or blender and process until ground evenly. Add the ground seasonings to the meat and mix in well. In a frying pan on top of the stove, fry a little piece of the sausage and taste for seasoning. Correct the seasoning to your own taste. If you think the sausage is too fatty, you may add some more lean meat (and it needn't be pork: veal is fine, and oysters are delicious); you may want more hot peppers.
• Put the properly seasoned forcemeat through the fine grinder.
• If you are stuffing the sausage into casings: Run the mixture through the meat grinder set on the fine setting (and with the sausage stuffer attached and the casings tied at one end and placed over the end of the funnel, ready to be filled). Tie off stuffed sausages into 4-inch links. Cover the sausages and place immediately in the refrigerator.
• You can smoke some or all of the sausage - or partially smoke it. And you can freeze the sausage as well.

COUNTRY SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients really well and then grind in a sausage grinder.