summer sausage

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I suppose this is as good as way as any to start this summer sausage page seeing as how this is how summer sausage

starts out. the picture on the left is of my extraordinary daughter Ciara. She had Just turned nine years old last

deer season when she tagged out with her first button buck.( I was much more excited than she was) One precise

shot was all she needed. (a chip off the old block i'd say) That's my little boy Jody on the right. he's helping me skin

the one I got the day before Ciara got her's. (might be another chip off the old block)

Here's a picture of the fruits of Ciara's deer season 2002. She was wanting one with antlers but settled for

this pretty good sized doe. It was her second one shot kill. I'm very proud of that girl.

Here's Ciara's 2003 deer. A nice 10 pointer. (she really smoked me this year, I got

a little six pointer)

Okay, listen up boys and girls. I'm ready to show you in ten (give or take)

easy steps how to make great summer sausage. My boy Jody will assist

me in this lesson.

Step #1

As you can see step #1 consists mainly of killing your deer. I won't take the time to break step #1

down into countless sub-steps but Lord knows that I could. Let's just let it suffice to say that once

you gain the experience and know-how of ole' stealthy Jody here step #1 is the easiest of all the

steps. You just quietly sneak up to that ole' buck and blast him right in the head.

Step #2

Of course step #2 would be cleaning your deer and getting it ready to make into sausage. Here

again I'll not bother with all of the potential sub-points. Jody here is about the best deer skinner

I've ever seen. He's been giving me pointers but I'm still dreadfully slow.

Step #3

Okay, for step #3 you'll want to go to your sausage shop or in my case "shed".

Step #4

Inside your sausage shed you should have a meat grinder. Jody and I are just finishing up a

batch of sausage and we've not yet cleaned up the mess. Please accept our apologies.

As you have probably guessed, you use the grinder to grind up your deer meat.

Step #5

Step #5 consists of mixing in the spices and stuffing the ground meat into casings.

Step #6

Now you'll want to smoke the sausage. This is how an old pro like Jody does it.(He makes

all of this look so easy, doesn't he ?!)

Step #7

On the left you can see a tray of large 21/2" x 20" summer sausage. On the right a whole

platter of 3/4" sausage snack sticks. Now you've seen it from start to finish. After these lessons

you to should be able to make your own delicious summer sausage.

Hey, wait a minute! That was only seven seven steps. Well, it's like I said, Jody is a pro at this.

It would have taken me at least ten steps. (Maybe twelve or more)

My wife made some improvements to my sausage shop. Take a look.