What do two empty nesters do after all their children head back home from Christmas? We make sausage. Kyle bought me a meat grinder for my kitchen aid for Christmas. He likes to play with toys.
When we got our hog butchered they sent us home with 15 packages of pork steaks, that we would have had made into sausage. Bummer, so Kyle said we would just make it ourselves.
Growing up on a farm, we processed our own meat a lot. When Kyle and I were young married we did this with my dad and grandpa one weekend. My family did a salt and pepper sausage. Grandpa told dad that he should put enough salt in the bowl to track a rabbit. Interesting way to measure.
So every time I dumped salt into a batch of sausage, I would say, enough to track a rabbit, but I measured with my teaspoon first. We did use the method dad and grandpa did by making a small patty and sampling until we enjoyed the taste. We only had to remove one ingredient to make it to our liking. It was kind of fun. We have 1/2 the steaks left to do this a second time in the future.
Grandpa always had funny sayings like that. Great Grandma did too such as twice as much meat as raisins when describing how to make homemade mincemeat pie.
ReplyDeleteI'm probably the only person to actually burn out a kitchen aide mixer and it came with a meat grinder that you could have had for free! Anyway, looks like a winner and I do love old sayings!
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