Cabbage Sausage

[Rutersville]

Who'ed a thunk it, but my dearly departed neighbor was right.

My neighbor was born and raised in a house next to my place, and didn't even speak English until he got into kindergarten.

We became good friends when he found out I could speak a little German with him!

For several years he had told me about his family stretched their pork sausage yield by adding a large head of diced cabbage to a 10lb recipe of their smoked sausage, and how good it was.

I finally tried it, and it's really, really good!

5lbs Deer or Elk
5lbs pork shoulder or pork trimmings
2 tablespoons salt
2 teaspoons kosher salt (don’t ask me why, I’m just doing what I was taught)
2 tablespoons sweet paprika
6 tablespoons fine ground black or white pepper
1 teaspoon coriander
4 teaspoons mace
1 teaspoon allspice
12 large cloves fresh garlic, finely pressed
2 teaspoon Instacure or Prague powder #1
2.5 cups Shiner Bock Beer
1 large head of green or purple cabbage (medium chopped)

Cut meat it into 1 inch cubes, and grind it through the course plate of your meat grinder.
Combine the spices and garlic in a bowl and mix with the 2.5 cups of Shiner Bock Beer.
Pour the spice and water combination into the ground meat and mix thoroughly for at least 3 minutes. Use your hands for mixing to assure even distribution.
Run the mixture through the fine plate of your meat grinder.
Add the cabbage to the mixture and mix thoroughly.
Use your hands for mixing to assure even distribution.
Stuff it in natural casings and apply your favorite light smoking technique and grill it later or just grill it unsmoked.

[Neuse]

I do believe I will be trying this next month, sounds good.

[slomo]

I’m going to be trying this very soon

[IowaHunter]

I love getting old family recipes! Great post.

[Mr. Stickers]

All the years I've been making sausage ( 40 something ) I have never heard of mixing cabbage in with the sausage....but I am for sure gonna give it a try, thanks for sharing.

[Stolle]

We made batches with cabbage and green onion the past couple years. It’s good.


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[Czechoholic]

Hruska's store in Ellinger sells a sausage and cabbage kolache (if you want to try it before you make a batch)

[asu-indian]

I can’t wait to try it.

[3under3]

Wonder how it would be with drained sauerkraut in place of cabbage?

[kmitchl]

Adding the mace to the spices makes it sound more like bratwurst than traditional smoked sausage. Will have to give this a try.

[Yemale]

Sounds great, I want to try it asap. My fridge is empty so I am waiting for grocery delivery. By the way, Instacart is definitely a good service. To be honest, I don't know what would I do without such services. Anyway, thanks for sharing this recipe. In addition, find out instacart phone number here.

[WildThings]

Made a batch of this today! Gonna smoked it tomorrow, The jury's still out! Stay tuned

[E.TX.BOWHUNTER]

Originally Posted by WildThings

Made a batch of this today! Gonna smoked it tomorrow, The jury's still out! Stay tuned

What say the jury?