Spice sticks and Summer Sausage Recipe

After I buy a meat grinder this year,

What do you suggest are the better recipes for Summer Sausage?

Go to the LEM website and check things out for spices and equipment. The LEM products can be found in Fleet Farms and Ganders if any are found locally.

If you have a favorite meat counter that has its own “house” sausages, ask if they will batch the seasonings, cure and other ingredients out for ten pound and 25 pounds. I get my ring bologna and summer sausage seasonings done this way at a local butcher shop as well as purchase my casings for those sausages directly from them too, much cheaper. I use the LEM products for the jerky and the small sticks.

In recent years I have begun water-bathing my rings and summer sausage after smoking and have found this to be the best way ever to assure complete heating without over-cooking the meat and making it super dry. If you want more info on that you can pm me, the process is super simple.

also try sausage maker dot com

try curleyssausagekitchen.com

We have been using the Cabelas Summer Sausage Kits for years. They are pretty good, but you may want to add additional spices. I like to add crushed red pepper flakes and mustard seed. Fennel seed, black pepper, garlic, etc are all good additions to flavor it up. Jalapeno and high temperature cheese are favorites of some.

Sorry for the tardy reply, been a busy fast pace lately, with that said,

Thank you very much for the reply’s so far!

I’ve bought SS w/ hot pepper cheese using my deer from 3 different local butcher shops. In all 3 I like it rather well but,, would like to blend them together for different reasons. I would like to use,,

One for the cheese content and size of the chunks,
another one for the texture of the meat and its moistness without being fatty,
And the 3rd for it’s flavors mostly. I would like to blend a touch of the first two into the third one.

No shop gives up it’s treasured recipe. How can I go about this??