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  • The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making

    The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making

    Book Review: The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making
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    One self-reliant project that I enjoy, but haven’t got around to videotaping is home sausage making. I believe that the ability to cure and store meat is a vital skill to anyone interested in producing a majority of their own food (vegans and veggies excepted).

    I can deal with a lot of things, but a life without bacon and sausage are just not worth dealing with (IMHO).  All preppers need to know how to How to Harvest Your Livestock and Wild Game

    Luckily I found this little gem. The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making is a well illustrated book on dispatching, skinning, and then butchering both common livestock, but also common game animals.

    Not only does this book describe how to cut up a larger animal into usable (and well defined) cuts of meat, it also describes how to prep it for storage by curing and smoking it.

    This book has been a very useful to me, its detailed enough to show me what to do, and modern enough to have great illustrations.

    How to Harvest Your Livestock and Wild Game has been a great help to me as I learned to make sausage, bacon, and other cured meats.

  • Recipe: Sausage Sunshine

    Recipe: Sausage Sunshine

    Recipe: Sausage Sunshine
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    As I talked about in an earlier post I love cooking egg sunshine on the weekend, well I figure if the recipe is good with toast, how would it be with meat?  With a burning desire to know (and to have breakfast) – I created Sausage Sunshine.

    I simply made large patties out of a roll of sausage, and used a small mason jar to cut out a circle in the center, and then cooked it in a skillet with an egg cracked in the center.

    Sausage Sunshine was VERY good, but I did learn two things, the patty needs to be thin and the sausage should be cooked for a little while before adding the egg or otherwise the egg will be under cooked or the sausage overcooked.

    This is a great recipe to fuel a day out working on the homestead, but it is a little rich to sit around watching TV.