Pennsylvania Scrapple Recipes

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH SCRAPPLE

Steps:

• Crumble pork sausage in a frying pan; add 4 cups water and heat to boiling.
• Reduce heat, cook for 20 minutes.
• Then drain meat, reserving 3 cups stock.
• Add salt and sage to stock, bring to boiling.
• Combine cornmeal and 1 cup of cold water.
• Gradually add stock, stirring constantly.
• Cover and cook over low heat for 10 minutes. Stir occasionally.
• Then add sausage, stir it all together and pour into loaf pan.
• Refrigerate overnight.
• Next morning slice and fry until set.
• NOTE: Cooking time does not inclue refregerating over night.

PENNSYLVANIA SCRAPPLE

Steps:

• All meat is placed in a container with the salt and instacure No. 1.
• Meat is cooked slowly until tender; do not boil.
• Meat is removed, allowed to cool and ground through a 3/8" grinder plate.
• The meat stock then is brought up to boiling, add all the ingredients except the corn meal.
• After all ingredients are mixed, add the corn meal slowly stirring to avoid lumps.
• Mix well and add meat.
• Scrapple may be stuffed into any size fibrous casings or simply formed in a meat loaf pan.
• Allow to cool for 24 hours before using.

SCRAPPLE RECIPE

Steps:

• Place meat and bouillon cube in Dutch oven or medium stockpot. Add water. Bring just to boil; simmer on medium-low heat 2 hours or until meat is tender, occasionally skimming and discarding foam from surface of cooking liquid.
• Remove meat from cooking liquid, reserving liquid in pan. Cool meat slightly. Meanwhile, strain reserved liquid. Reserve 1-1/2 cups of the strained liquid; discard remaining liquid. Add gelatine to reserved liquid; stir until dissolved.
• Pull meat into shreds with 2 forks; discard any fatty pieces. Place shredded meat in large bowl. Add stuffing mix, cornmeal and reserved cooking liquid; mix well.
• Press into 9x5-loaf pan sprayed with cooking spray. Refrigerate 3 hours.
• Run knife around edges of pan to loosen scrapple from sides of pan. Unmold onto cutting board. Cut into 1/2-inch-thick slices.
• Cook, in batches, in nonstick skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium heat 2 to 3 min. on each side or until scrapple slices are heated through and evenly browned on both sides.

SCRAPPLE

Steps:

• Place sausage in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain and rinse in colander under cold water, breaking sausage into pea sized pieces.
• Return to skillet along with the condensed milk, and heat over medium until just bubbling. Immediately stir in the cornmeal and pepper and reduce heat to simmer. Continue cooking, 5 minutes total; mush will be stiff.
• Pack into 8x4 loaf pan, cover and chill overnight. To serve, cut into 1/4 to 1/2 inch slices and saute until golden in nonstick skillet.

SCRAPPLE

Steps:

• Bring ham broth, 1 1/2 cups water and 1/2 teaspoon salt to a boil in the top of a double boiler over direct heat. Once boiling, sprinkle cornmeal into liquid, stirring constantly till mixture is smooth and starts to boil. Meanwhile, bring water to a boil in the bottom of the double boiler. Place the pot with hot cornmeal on top of the bottom of the double boiler, cover and cook for 45 minutes.
• While the cornmeal mixture cooks, heat large nonstick skillet. Brown ground pork until cooked thoroughly. Remove from heat and let cool. Do not drain. Once the pork has reached room temperature, grind meat to a paste in a food processor.
• Place puréed meat in a bowl and add grated onion, 1 teaspoon of salt, the pepper and the sage, and mix well. Add hot cornmeal mixture and combine thoroughly so no lumps remain.
• Rinse 9-by-5-inch loaf pan in cold water and grease with bacon fat. Pack meat mixture in loaf pan and cover skin of meat with plastic wrap, pressing it against the surface. Meat mixture will be warm to touch. Let meat loaf come to room temperature, and then place in the refrigerator to chill overnight.
• Remove plastic wrap and unmold scrapple onto a cutting board. Cut into 1/2-inch slices. Dust lightly with cornmeal and fry on both sides in a small amount of bacon fat.