Home Sausage Making: How-To Techniques for Making and Enjoying 125 Sausages at Home

by Susan Mahnke Peery, Charles G. Reavis

Overview

This comprehensive guide to making everything from Vienna Sausage to Spanish-Style Chorizo shows you how easy it is to make homemade sausages. With simple instructions for more than 100 recipes made from pork, beef, chicken, turkey, poultry, and fish — including classics like Kosher Salami and Italian Cotechino — you’re sure to find a sausage to suit your taste.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580174718
Publisher:	Storey Books
Publication date:	01/15/2003
Edition description:	Revised
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Growing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Susan Mahnke Peery was a regular at Bratwurst Day. As the former food editor at Yankee magazine, she wrote 100 installments of the "Great New England Cooks" series. She is the newsletter editor for Digital Hearth; the author of The Wellesley Cookie Exchange Cookbook; and co-author, with her husband Gordon Peery, of Potluck Plain and Fancy. She lives in Nelson, New Hampshire.


The late Charles G. Reavis authored the original edition of Home Sausage Making, published in 1981. He was a chef and writer, and an English teacher in Endwell, New York.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part One: The Techniques
  1  The Story of Sausage
  2  Equipment and Ingredients
  3  Making and Cooking Sausage: The Essential Techniques
Part Two: The Sausages
  4  Pork Sausages
  5  Beef, Lamb, and Veal Sausages
  6  Combination Sausages
  7  Game Sausages
  8  Poultry Sausages
  9  Seafood Sausages
  10  Vegetarian Sausages
Part Three: Cooking with Sausage
  11  Sausage for Breakfast or Brunch
  12  Sausage Starters
  13  Sausage for Lunch or Dinner
Appendixes
  Metric Equivalents and Conversion
  Resources
  Acknowledgments
  Index
 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Reavis shows readers in step-by-step illustrated fashion how to make a variety of classic sausages…a complete guide to sausage preservation along with care and storage advice for the individual varieties included." -Booklist

"The instructions for making the most of the sausage variations are surprisingly simple."

-Publisher's Weekly

Editorial Reviews

"Reavis shows readers in step-by-step illustrated fashion how to make a variety of classic sausages…a complete guide to sausage preservation along with care and storage advice for the individual varieties included." -Booklist

"The instructions for making the most of the sausage variations are surprisingly simple."

-Publisher's Weekly

From the Publisher