Chimney7
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For any of you Appalachian types that not only like to process your own deer, but like to add a little something extra to your breakfast sausage, leeks/ramps can be found this time of year. Leeks typically go to seed around September-ish, don’t quote me on that, and they send up a little shoot that just breaks the ground surface. If you know exactly where to find them, you can go out starting around thanksgiving, ive never gone out earlier. When you get to your leek digging spot you have to brush away the leaves and you will see little green tips coming out of the ground in clumps, those are leeks. When they’re small they are way more potent than they are in April when they’re green. A little goes along way. I added a 1/4 cup to a 5lb batch.
The last few years I’ve gotten leeks in April, made breakfast sausage with deer parts that I froze in anticipation of making sausage and then refroze. Sometimes it’s great and sometimes like last years it sucks. I’m not a fan of freezing more than once, so i decided this year to make it a point to get some leeks when I went to my hometown in north central PA for the rifle opener.
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