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Saturday, December 27, 2008

How To: Can Sausage (and other Ground Meats)

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How To Home-Can Sausage

How To Home-Can Sausage

Omit sage from your recipe if you are mixing your own sausage. In canning it will make the sausage bitter. Use a very light hand with other herbs and spices including garlic and onion, they will become stronger tasting in the canned sausage.
I simply use a bit of hot red pepper, black pepper, salt, and some thyme or marjoram for sausage that is to be canned.

Use 2/3 lean meat to 1/3 fat to make the best canned sausage.
Can sausage the same way as you can ground meat, except:
# Make small patties, cook til very done.
# Unlike ground beef, you use the fat from cooking the sausage in canning it.

# Don’t fill the jar too full, 2/3 full is enough.
# Pour the grease in and cover the sausages.
# You may want to melt some extra lard to use in covering the sausages in the jars. Keep it very hot while waiting to be poured.

Adjust lids, can in pressure canner at 10 pounds pressure.
Pints 75 minutes
Quarts 90 minutes