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| How do you make summer sausage? I just go to the slaughter house in Kentwood to buy it. Thanks.
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The best sausage in my very, very, very biased opinion is to use 50% lamb, and 50% mutton!
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| "Mutton," I've heard my mom use that name before when we would go and buy baby lambs when I was very young like 5 or 6. What is it? What else can go in the summer sausage?
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Mutton is sheep with an age over 14 months old. Its very strong, but also very juicy. Some like the strong taste while others prefer the mild flavor of lamb.
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| DrawBar...using mutton...do you have to soak the meat with something before cooking it?
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Common misunderstanding about sheep meat...many think that the older the meat is, the tougher and drier it is, but that is not the case. With mutton its far more juicy, BUT its also a LOT stronger in taste.
I am not sure where mutton gets its bad reputation. I think Teg is the best but Mutton is actually good too. I think during World War II when 10 year old sheep were being slaughtered and put onto the tables of everyone, it got a bad reputation. I don't know buts its definitely not dry.
I think the lamb/mutton combination on sausage stems from the ideal mixture of cost versus taste. That is, the cheap price of mutton makes the meat affordable, but the rather mild flavor of lamb tempers what would be a very strong taste.
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| I guess it like wild rabbit vs keep in pen rabbit. The only kind of lamb/sheep that's around here is the showing kind not the kept for the table kind.
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I thought the same thing when I started looking at sheep farming nearly two years ago and I was surprised at how many sheep producers there are near me. Just because they show sheep, that does not mean they do not sell the cull ewes, ram lambs and excess lambs they have.
But what really surprised me was the number of lamb eaters out there. I call them out-of-the-closet lamb eaters because you would never know that there are so many people that eat lamb. My best friend was one and he never said anything about it until I started raising them.
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| Isn't there a joke about never wanting to watch sausauge being made if you are going to eat it? But seriously...what spices do you use? Mary Ann
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| Good question about the spices. I guess it all depends on your background and the diet. Also what is the difference between summer sausage and blood sausage? Any know?
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