Ingredients

  • 3/4 pound veal, trimmed, cubed
  • 3/4 pound jowl fat, cubed
  • 11 ounces ice
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 teaspoon white pepper
  • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 1/4 teaspoon mace
  • 1/2 teaspoon ginger
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon zest (blanched, chopped superfine)
  • 2 tablespoons Non-fat dry milk powder
  • Hog casings for stuffing

Method

  • Combine veal with salt and sugar.
  • Grind meat and jowl fat through the fine plate of heavy duty grinder.
  • Keep meat and jowl fat separate.
  • Chill well.
  • Place ground meat in food processor, add ice.
  • Sprinkle spice mixture over ice.
  • Process mixture till very cold, 30 degrees on thermometer.
  • Stop machine, scrape down sides.
  • Continue processing till temperature rises to 40 degrees (the longer it takes, the finer the sausage.)
  • Mixture should resemble cake batter.
  • Add jowl fat and process till mixture reaches 45 degrees.
  • (emulsion occurs now) Add non-fat milk powder and process till mixture reaches 58 degrees.
  • To stuff casings: Fill a commercial sausage stuffer evenly with mixture, making sure there are no air-pockets.
  • Stuff hog casings, not too tight, tie off with fine kitchen string.
  • Poach sausages in a shallow pan of simmering water (water should be 165 degrees), un till internal temperature of meat is 155 degrees.
  • (Don't boil, casings can split) Remove sausages to ice bath when cooked.
  • When internal temp.
  • reaches 60 degrees remove from water: Cook, fry or grill and serve.
  • Recommended Wine: 1992 Niersteiner Rosenberg Silvaner Trocken, Weingut athildenhof Freiherr Heyl zu Herrnsheim