Home Sausage Making : How-To Techniques for Making and Enjoying 100 Sausages at Home

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Making sausage at home is simple and pain free. Once you've learned the basics, experimentation and sausage innovation are bound to take over. Then before you know it, you will be making gourmet sausages that are better than anything you can buy in the market, and at half the cost! Charles Reavis's Home Sausage Making introduces a world of banger possibilities--from traditional pork to salmon and poultry. However, you will need more than just the book. A meat grinder is recommended as is a sausage stuffer and sausage skins. Beyond that, ingredients are pretty basic. This is, after all, reaching right back to the peasant kitchen--and the mindset that there's a way to use everything from snout to tail except for the squeal. Start with Reavis, then reach beyond. --Schuyler Ingle

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Review by Kristi G., mom of Sage, 2010-05-20

I am new to sausage making and this was the book I picked. It has a pretty long section just explaining things - equipment, casings, techniques, tricks, basically a very good primer.

The recipes that I have tried, I will agree, are too weakly spiced for my taste, but that's easy enough to solve, I just added more in the same proportions.

It covers all the basic sausage types. It's best, in my opinion, for the beginner as a primer, than maybe as a great recipe book per say. It's a real confidence booster too, and encourages one to dive in and do it.

I'm very pleased with what I've learned from it, and I'm saving money and making healthier, tasty sausage at home, so I give it 4 stars.

Review by Robert J. Scire, 2010-05-02

This book has some great history of sausage and some nice recipies. We have onl made Italian sausage to date and modified the printed recipies to our taste... overall the book is good for the beginner

Review by Royal Caroler, 2010-02-19

Home Sausage Making : How-To Techniques for Making and Enjoying 100 Sausages at Home

The book is great. You can't put it down. It gives information on equipment, choices, sources for spices, different casings and more. It gives stories on histories on various sausages, recipies on veal, pork, chicken, game, vegetarian and more. A great find that inspires you.

Review by J. J. Schwarz, 2010-01-09

This book came with a sausage making/stuffing kit I purchased from Lem Products. (5 lb stuffer kit.) It gives you just enough information to get started safely, without overwhelming you with all of the details and nice-to-know stuff you can learn later when you find yourself addicted to sausage making. I have made several of the recipes and they turned out great! While this book is not the definitive text on the subject, it gets you making sausage.

I recommend this book to any beginner. With a handful of useful tips and solid recipes the authors have insured that you will be successfully making great, fresh sausage in no time.

Review by Baker Man, 2009-08-12

This book has everything you need to know about getting started in sausage making. It is well written and informative. It remains in my reference book collection for some of the outstanding recipes inside. I have won BBQ contests with the Bavarian summer sausage and the Polish sausage recipes, no kidding! This is a must have if you are interested in making sausage at home.

How does fresh sausage taste? You may never eat store bought sausage again, not willingly at least!