What kind of meat is sausage?

Answer 1

Its is a chicken sausage that has apples in it.

Answer 2

To help answer this question, I consulted my trusty cook-book, "The All-Purpose Cookbook, Joy of Cooking" by Irma S. Rombauer and Marion Rombauer Becker in 1964. That name is usually shortened to, the "Joy of Cooking". The Rombauer family (I think) has carried on the tradition of publishing a "Joy of Cooking" nearly every year since 1931, when the first book was published. I received this book when I got married in 1968, and have treasured the book all these years. It has been a treasure trove of information about cooking, food preparation, food qualities and quantities, handling foods, etc. (I can look up a chart of a side of beef to see where certain cuts come from.) I looked up sausage to see whether the Rombauers have an answer to the question: "What is a sausage?" "At burchering time in our valley, the popular man is the one who knows how to flavor the sausage--not too much pepper or sage and just enough coriander. This process has to be played by ear, for > uncooked meat cannot be tasted to correct the seasoning and the strength of spices is so variable. The best way to learn is to mix a small batch and cook up a sample for the always-hungry helpers to test. 1. To each part: Firm diced lard Use: 2 parts lean ground pork Season the lard with a mixture of: Thyme Summer savory Coriander Sweet marjoram Pulverized bay leaf Freshly ground pepper > To cook fresh sausage patties, start them in a ^ cold ungreased pan over moderate heat and cook until medium brown on both sides and done throughout." "II 6 Medium Patties If you have a sudden hankering for one of these small-scale recipes, grind ^ twice with the finest grinder knives: 1/2 lb lean pork 1/2 lb pork fat 1/2 lb lean veal Mix in a large bowl: 1 cup bread crumbs grated rind of 1 lemon 1/4 tsp each sage, sweet marjoram and thyme 1/8 tsp summer savory 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper 2 tsp salt A grating of fresh nutmeg Add the ground meat and form this mixture into a 1 1/2-inch layer. Store overnight refrigerated and covered to blend the seasoning. ^ To cook, see 1 above." On a preceding page, the Rombauers state: "There is freshly ground sausage meat or Country Sausage (see recipe above), which must be used at once. There are smoked sausages: frankfurters, wieners or Vienna sausage, Bologna and Mettwurst--all of which may be eaten as bought, but may also be simmered, baked or broiled for serving with pasta, hot vegetables and fruit garnish. If you broil or pan-frycased sausages, prick them to keep the skins from bursting. This is not necessary if you have added a small quantity of water to the pan at the beginning of cooking or have first blanched, dried and floured them lightly before frying. Even then, if they swell quickly, prick them lightly before they burst, to give greater protection to the meat. Dry sausages are also available: hard and soft cervelat, salami, saucison de Lyon, mortadella, pepperoni and chorizo. They are delicious as hors d'oeuvre, in Sandwiches and for seasoning bland dishes. Be sure that any kind of sausage you buy or make involves good quality meats. Cereal 'stretchers' are almost certainly present in commercial sausages unless they are marked 'pure' or 'all meat.' When properly made and if the casing is intact, dry sausages may be kept indefinitely in a cool place. For this reason, they have become known as 'summer sausages'--although they are available the year round. Dry types are particularly prized when refrigeration is lacking. Available, too--although they need constant refrigeration--are spiced meats like liver loaf or Braunschweiger, blood sausage, deviled minced ham and veal loaves. Once the sausage casing is cut open, smoked or cooked sausage can be stored refrigerated about 1 week; semidry and dry types, 2 weeks or more." Surely that answers your question! Cathy Williams

Answer 3

Usually meat and ... stuff.

What kind of meat, and what the "stuff" is, varies extremely, though most sausages are made of some kind of cow meat and/or some kind of pig meat and the "stuff" is often at least partly fat from one or the other of those two animals and nearly always includes some kind of spices.

The definition of "meat" can be pretty generous. The cheapest sausages are often made of those parts of the animal that are not considered desirable for other purposes (offal and sometimes parts of the head). Some specialty sausages, like liverwurst or braunschweiger, are made mainly from specific internal organs (in both the named cases, the liver).

Sausages made from something other than that usually specify what. For example, turkey sausage is made from turkey and blood sausage is made from (yes, really) blood.

Answer 4

Most sausage is made from pork and gets its flavor from a variety of seasonings that are added to the ground meat. However, sausage can be made from beef, chicken or turkey and sometimes is a mixture of two or more meats.

Answer 5

It depends on what type of sausage your talking about. It can be made with beef, pork, geese, venison, and (but rarely) chicken. It can also be made with many other meats. You can also get vegetarian sausage that has no meat. Next time you go to the butcher's shop, ask THEM what they use in their grinder.

Answer 6

...usually pork, but they can be any ground meat in a casing really- turkey, chicken, beef, lamb, etc.

Answer 7

A sausage roll is a sausage wrapped in puffy pastry :)

Answer 8

Kielbasa,Pork,Beef, etc.