Introduction

In an online forum I belong to, Home Butchering, Meat Curing And Sausage, Gib Sproles asked for members to share hundred-year-old sausage recipes. I was intrigued and contacted a few of the guys who contributed for more detail.

Using the following conversions, 8.58g = 1 tbsp; 1g = 0,0022lb; 1 cup = 137g, let’s delve into the recipes.

-> Potato Sausage from Sweden from Scott Johnson

Scott writes, “This is the recipe my wife’s family has been using for generations. I have no idea where it came from originally. They are Swedish. My wife’s family can trace back to Ellis Island. Every year, the family gets together, and uses 100-year-old equipment, to make the sausage. This year, due to the original equipment being with another of the extended family, we used modern grinding/stuffing tools. It turned out great.”

	Lb	kg	Inclusion
Ground pork	2,5lb	1,134	21,40%
Ground beef	2,5lb	1,134	21,40%
Potatoes	5lg	2,27	42,83%
Onions	143lb	0,65	12,26%
Allspice	0,030lb	0,014	0,26%
Salt	0,185lb	0,084	1,58%
Pepper	0,030lb	0,014	0,26%
		5,3	100%

-> Oregon Trail Recipe by Chris Stover

He writes, “my buddy’s great great grandfather found this recipe laying on the Oregon Trail.”

			g’s	lb	Inclusion
Pork	10		4 530,00	10,00	97,33%
Cayanne	2	Tbsp	17,16	0,04	0,37%
Black Pepper	1,5	Tbsp	12,87	0,03	0,28%
Red Pepper	1,5	Tbsp	12,87	0,03	0,28%
Red Pepper	1,5	Tbsp	12,87	0,03	0,28%
Rubbed Sage	2	Tbsp	17,16	0,04	0,37%
Corianser	2	Tbsp	17,16	0,04	0,37%
salt	1/4	cup	34,25	0,08	0,74%
			4 654,34	10,24	100,00%

-> Cody Bruce‘s Good-sausage-recipe

Cody writes, “This one is 300 years old and was hand-carried by my Scottish ancestors to Virginia (not really but it is a good sausage recipe).

This one is 300 years old and was hand-carried by my Scottish ancestors to Virginia (not really but it is a good sausage recipe):

2 lbs ground pork

1 Tbs sea salt

2 tsp black pepper

2 tsp fresh sage leaves (finely chopped, or 1 tsp dried sage)

1 tsp dried fennel (crushed)

1 tsp garlic powder

½ tsp dried rosemary

1 tsp fresh thyme (or ½ tsp dried thyme)

1 dash cayenne pepper (optional)

1 dash cloves (optional)

			G	lb	Inclusion
ground pork			907	2,00	90,96%
salt	1	tbsp	8,58	0,02	0,86%
Black Pepper	2	tbsp	17,16	0,04	1,72%
fresh sage leaves (finely chopped, or 1 tsp dried sage)	2	tbsp	17,16	0,04	1,72%
dried fennel (crushed)	1	tbsp	8,58	0,02	0,86%
garlic powder	1	tbsp	8,58	0,02	0,86%
Dried Rosemary	1/2	tbsp	4,29	0,01	0,43%
fresh thyme (or ½ tsp dried thyme)	1	tbsp	8,58	0,02	0,86%
Cayenne Pepper	1	dash	8,58	0,02	0,86%
Clove	1	dash	8,58	0,02	0,86%
			997,09	2,19	100,00%

Conclusion

I will keep updating this. I cant wait to try these!