Deer Sausage??

[wowsafari]

I was just wondering if anyone made their own deer sausage. If so, I cound use a good recipe. I took a small buck Sunday and would like to make some sausage out of him. I'm talking breakfast sausage not bratwurst and such. Thanks!

[WATERDOG]

I made some a few years back & I cant remember the exact recipie but it is very similar to this one, but it seemed like the pork to deer ratio was more 50/50 (but I didnt use pure fat) It turned out pretty good I thought

My advice to you is turn out a small batch to see how you like it first, then tweek the spices to your liking for a big batch. When I made mine I wish I had added some more crushed red pepper.

8 lbs. venison
¼ cup salt
2 tbsp. ground sage
2 lbs. pork fat
2 tbsp. black pepper
2 tbsp. crushed red pepper

Grind meat with medium blade. Combine spices and then mix well into meat. Cover well to avoid drying of meat.

Good Luck!! ;)

[kyhuntsman]

I was in a similiar wuandry this past week and just mixed pork sausage with ground deer meat at a 50/50 ratio.

I'll let you know how it turned out. I chose Bob Evans sausage and used the sage and italian seasoned sausage.

[wowsafari]

Ya, let me know how it turns out.

[WATERDOG]

dang you wowsafari, you got me fired up. I went to our local save-a-lot & picked up about 5lbs of pork fat. The butcher was real helpfull, he said normally for any sausage mix 20% fat to 80% lean meat. He gave me a package of "A.C. leggs sausage seasoning" which contains the same ingredience that I posted. It makes about 25lbs of sausage. All I have to do is grind & mix, COOL HUH! :cool: I plan on grinding some up this weekend, I'll let you know how it turns out. By the way, 5lbs of pork fat cost about $5.00 & the seasoning was about $2.50. :)

[ecmbowhunter]

hmm...got me thinkin' now waterdog

[aceoky]

Been making it for quite some time(and we love it) :D
FWIW, I use smoked bacon(store bought) for the "fat content", adds some real good flavor IMHO! As for spices, that's a "tough one", as some "like it hot" and some "mild" etc., The best advice was already given , try small batches see what you like(keep notes!!) :)

BTW, the bacon makes good burger too! :D

[WATERDOG]

Fried some up in the skillet this weekend. Had (6) people to taste test, funny how people show up when your cookin'. :cool: but everybody thought it was really good. I thought it rivaled the real thing (pork sausage that is). Relatively simple to do too; I'm glad I didnt spend my money on a processor.

[aceoky]

You reckon that would work with turkey? I'm just having trouble choking down those ol' gobblers.I have half a turkey breast left-I was thinking of using bacon or salt pork with it.
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Can't see why it wouldn't..

The bacon adds GREAT flavor IMHO(much better I think than anything else I've used) :D

Let us know how it "turns out"?

[kyhuntsman]

I could not find pok fat (didn't really look that hard though), so I tried mixing it 50/50 with Bob Evans Sage Pork Sausage. I'll thaw some out this week and let you know how it tastes.

Hopefully, I'll get another chance to make some this muzzle loader season. I'll try harder to find pork fat and even try mixing some with bacon. I think my wife would really like that as a burger!

Bass Pro Shops does have some sausage seasoning mix. Another place to get it would be lemproducts.com. I've bought jerky seasoning form them and really liked it. I'll be getting some more seasoning later on in the year too.

[BOWFISHER]

I used beef fat 3 part deer 1 part beef fat with sage, salt, ground red pepper to how hot I wanted it. ground it up one time added seasons and then ground it again to mix it up came out so good it would make a puppy pull a fraight train

[aceoky]

I could not find pok fat (didn't really look that hard though), so I tried mixing it 50/50 with Bob Evans Sage Pork Sausage. I'll thaw some out this week and let you know how it tastes.

Hopefully, I'll get another chance to make some this muzzle loader season. I'll try harder to find pork fat and even try mixing some with bacon. I think my wife would really like that as a burger!


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I think it works great in burger also! Great flavor, I think(hope) you'll like it!(and your wife does too.....mine really does!!) :)

[aceoky]

The first batch(or two???) I ever made that's how I did it (mixed it with Jimmy Dean's Sausage) and it was really good(though not exactly what I wanted)..soon after that was fixing some bacon and got a "big smile" and thought I'd try the bacon for fat/flavor and never looked back(and mixed it for burger also)..

The "grinding twice" method is best IMHO, it will make a much better mix and it doesn't really take THAT long to do!

[kyhuntsman]

I thawed some of the Italian deer sausage last night and will be fixing it tonight or tomorrow morning. I'll let you know how if turns out.

[kyhuntsman]

I used the italian suasage in a hambuger helper dish and it tasted very good. I had some left over that my wife is using in a stromboli dish fod dinner tonight or tomorrow evening. She got the recipe from Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals program on the cooking channel. That is a GREAT show which shows you hos to fix tasty complete meals in 30 minutes.

I think the next time I make venison sausage I will use a smaller ratio of venison to sausage, the 50-50 ratio seems a little overkill to me.