They got two bucks and three does. Four were taken down south near Kilbuck,OH and the other one was taken from our property. We've had quite a few on the property this year, we've seen at least 15 with two being small bucks.
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We took a trip down to the bulk food store in Sugarcreek. We decided to get our spices there since we were going to need large quantities. We got cayenne, fennel, sage, caraway, mustard seed, coriander, paprika and more. We also stopped at a local meat market to get our casings. We got natural casings for sausage and we also got some collagen casings for hot dogs. We are going to mix some turkey and venison for the hot dogs. We work outside so much that we need to have quick meal options. Hot dogs are the best but who knows what you are getting from the supermarket.
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Spices all measured and ready for the mixer. We put the meat and the spices in my Kitchen Aid mixer and let it mix on slow for four minutes. It changes the consistency of the meat mixture and makes it more gooey, more like sausage than just ground up meat.
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Then we put it back through the grinder and stuffed it into the casings.
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We picked up a bunch of good tips from videos on youtube, everything from grinding, stuffing and recipes.
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There is a special way to do this so that the links stay uniform and twist correctly.
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There you have it, sausages all in a row!
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Then packaged them all up and into the freezer.
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All in all we ended up with 20 pounds of Italian sausage, 20 pounds of burger and about 10 pounds of steaks from the back straps. The first deer was all ground and froze for burger. We have lots of Tacos and Sloppy Joes so we can never have enough burger. We are processing the last two deer today and I'll be making breakfast sausage and hot dogs. All that AND helping my sister move today too. The sausage might have to wait til Monday.
Til next time,
Beth
Mmmmmm.... I LOVE deer sausage. We don't process our own, a friend of ours does it for us.
ReplyDeleteI make jerky out of some of mine for Christmas presents for the men in my family- they love it!