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Big Game => Big Game Recipes => Topic started by: Rancid Crabtree on October 01, 2007, 09:35:17 AM

Title: Venison Brats or Italians
Post by: Rancid Crabtree on October 01, 2007, 09:35:17 AM
For a 10 pound batch

5 pounds of lean Venison
5 pounds of fatty pork Or ground pork
5 tbsp salt
1 tbsp cracked fennel seed
2 tsp course black pepper
1 tbsp sugar
3 tsp crushed hot pepper (more if you like)
1 tsp caraway seeds
1 tbsp coriander
2 1/2 cups ice water.

Grind both meats and mix by hand.
Mix all spices and water and pour over meat
Mix by hand again
grind meat again through a finer plate than the first grind
If you have a sausage stuffer you can make links.
If you don't have a stuffer you can make Italian patty's
there just as good but you use a hamb. bun instead.

For Bratwurst, you leave out the Fennel and the hot pepper and add 2 tsp of mustard powder

Pics make it easier to explain.

Step 1. Get your kid to skin the deer. Tell him you need to take pics.

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Step 2. Get your kid to grind up and mix the meat. Use the same excuse from step 1.

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After he stuffs and twists the links (while you take pics) Allow him to cook some for you and him.
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