Yes, making your own sausage takes plenty of time and you need plenty of help in the kitchen to prepare such a family recipe. Anyone who has ever made Italian sausage before knows that you start out as the sausage holder not the mixer. The mixer is the person who mixes all the ingredients for the stuffer to make the sausage with.
If you are not experienced with grinding, mixing or stuffing then you get to hold the sausage in the front so the casing doesn’t break and to make sure all the air bubbles are out. Not until you master this technique can you work your way up through the ranks of grinder, mixer and stuffer.
For generations Sicilians have been making sausages in there own special way. Each town or each home would produce a different type of family sausage. The type of meat varied as well as the spice mixture that was used. Each home would at least have one thing in common and that would be the sausage grinder and stuffing machine.
So you can imagine how happy I was when my Aunt asked if I wanted my Grandfather’s sausage making equipment. Yes I know I can buy attachments for my Kitchen Aid or food processor to do the job but we all know it won’t taste the same as putting the meat through fifty pounds of cold steel attached to side of your kitchen table. There’s something about spending hours grinding, mixing and stuffing by hand that gives the sausage that extra love that’s needed to create perfection.
Now let me remind you that half way through this process you will definitely start to miss all of your modern day utensils. That is why you use more people in the kitchen to pick up the slack when your arms get tired from cranking out the meat.
So if I have not scared you away just yet, lets continue on the equipment you will need to create this miracle. I’ll first give you the old equipment version and then the modern equipment version just in case you decide to take the easy way out.
The version my Aunt gave me was the old heavy hand crank version with a grinder and sausage making attachments. There was also a grating attachment which I remember my Grandmother using to grate cheese and to turn stale bread into breadcrumbs.
Phil has been cooking and creating Italian dishes ever since the age of ten. His passion and love for Italian food is never ending. Visit him at http://www.great-chicago-italian-recipes.com for more family favorites.
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