Just stumbled across this thread, wish I had earlier because sausage making is my jam!
First thing I want to say is hank Shaw’s book buck buck moose has some excellent sausage recipes in it. If any of you guys have that book and have made the bangers you know whats up, I made a batch of those this year in casings and just made another batch in patty form which I like better than links.
Also just a heads up, any of you Appalachian types that kill deer and dig leeks, breakfast sausage with leeks, or ramps as some of you southern boys like to call them, are fire. If you don’t know about leeks, you do now, I’m not talking about the big honking things in the grocery store, I’m talking about the bulbs of fire, aka the finest of all wild foods, aka allium tricoccum, aka spring time tonic, that you can find in the woods sprouting in the spring.
sausage maker for life!