Fresh Breakfast Sausage

Mrs. decook asked for 10 lbs of breakfast sausage, so I whipped up a batch that my tummy sensitive daughter can eat. It turned out great, although sightly dry for my taste because the boston butt I bought from Walmart had lower than par marbling. I chose to add 1/3 cup more water and some dry corn starch as the last ingredient.


Here's the recipe made from my sausage spreadsheet calculator

Pork butts usually do fine.

That's a lot of numbers!

I couldn't remember which to buy so I got the one on sale. I could tell it was going to need help when I cut it up for grinding.

Yes it's a lot of numbers. Never underengineer when over engineering is an option.. seriously though I do use this to reverse engineer recipes and to scale it to weight.

Seems like a lot of salt? If I did the math right that's 574mg per ounce of meat?

The balance is very good even to my salt sensitive wife. When I remember I'll post up my spice recipe that is a close match to Jimmy Dean spicey.

That attachment could be a picture of a monkey F(*#ing a football for all I know.


Is "os" supposed to be ounces? which is abbreviated "oz"

Kinda what I thought. I like "Old Plantation" seasoning for breakfast sausage. Will monkeys really do that to a football?

I like that because it's life!

But......cooking is a free form adventure for me, because that's part of the fun of it!