Pork/Lamb Bologna Sausage

bologna sausage
(from Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1878)

Ingredients:

1 lb. bacon, fat and lean​

1 lb. veal​

1 lb. pork​

1 lb. suet​

seasoning​

sausage casing​

dry grated bread, or boiled rice may be added​

salt​

vinegar​

Instructions:

Take one pound of bacon fat and lean, one ditto veal, do., pork, do., suet, chop all fine, season highly: fill the skins, prick and boil them an hour, and hang them to dry grated bread or boiled rice may be added: clean the skins with salt and vinegar.​

My Notes: I should think all of the meat should be ground up. "Fill the skins" refers to stuffing the sausage casing. Also note that "do" means "ditto".

 

[Allie]

The meat grinder was uncommon in America at the time of the war, although it had been commercially sold in Germany about a decade previous. Recipes which today call for ground meat were then made with meat chopped fine using a rocker blade. Basically only restaurants had meat grinders, to make the delicacy "Hamburg style steak." It took a while for people to get used to the new texture, and for a time meat that was ground rather than chopped was frowned on.

In 1836 Mary Randolph would definitely not have owned a meat grinder.

 

[Legion Para]

Have you made them for your Battery?

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

I suggested the use of a meat grinder so that "modern" people could make the recipe a bit easier. The intent of my recipe postings is to encourage people to enjoy making their own food.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Have you made them for your Battery?

Not yet, but I intend to!! They sound delicious!!

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

Have you made them for your Battery?

I do, however, make Pickled Ring Bologna for the Pards in the Battery!! They LOVE them!

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

@Albert Sailhorst, I thought you were talking about the common Bologna Sandwich !

Now you're channeling my inner Redneck!

"Fried Baloney" . . . it's almost as good as bacon.

 

[donna]

Another recipe to try. They do sound good.

As to fried bologna we like the fried bologna sandwich as well as serving fried bologna for breakfast with scrambled eggs.

 

[nitrofd]

Fried bologna is good by itself or with eggs.we also like to make salami and eggs.

 

[Albert Sailhorst]

@Albert Sailhorst, I thought you were talking about the common Bologna Sandwich !

Now you're channeling my inner Redneck!

"Fried Baloney" . . . it's almost as good as bacon.

In my "world", Fried Bologna is a Food Group!