Sicilian-style hot or sweet sausage

6 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
5 Feet medium (2-inch diameter) hog casings
4½ pounds Lean pork butt, cubed
½ pounds Pork fat, cubed
2½ teaspoon Salt, or to taste
3 teaspoons Freshly coarse ground black pepper
3 teaspoons Fennel seed
Crushed red pepper to taste for hot sausage
Ingredients for version #2:
Same as above except add:
2 Cloves garlic, finely minced
1 teaspoon Anise seed

Directions

Ingredients for version #1:

1. Prepare the casings.

2. Grind the meat and fat together through the coarse disk.

3. Mix the remaining ingredients together with the meat and fat.

4. Stuff the mixture into casings and twist off into three- or four-inch links.

5. Refrigerate and use within three days or freeze.

FROM: Tandika Star, Jul-22-90 2:30pm Source: "Home Sausage Making", Reavis

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