There are always loads of recipes I'd like to try but lose them before I do. This is where I can record recipes I find interesting and keep notes on my experiments with them.

I have a system that I've adopted for working through recipes:

1 - New recipes are saved to the Experimental Mouffette and is labeled : Untested
2 - As I'm working out the changes I'd like to make (if any) it is labeled : Testing
3 - Once I think I've got the correct formula it is labeled : Test 1
4 - IF I am able to reproduce the effect a second time it is labeled : Test 2 - if I am not able to reproduce the effect, it remains Test 1
5 - The same process as step 4 is used to graduate it to Test 3
6 - Once I have been able to reproduce the effect successfully 3 times, it graduates to my main blog, La Mouffette Gourmande

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Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Fresh Sausages - Testing

This is pretty much me making stuff up. From what I could find, when making sausages you want 20-30% to be fat. So that means that regular ground pork contains approximately 8% fat, so I need an additional 12-22% more fat. So, if 20% of 1lb is .2lbs, that translates into 3.2oz. If I aim for 3 oz of extra fat per lb of ground pork, I should hit the range of between 20-30% fat. I can use the unrendered lard to do this. I once made lard, and then used the leftover pork fat solids to make sausage, and that seemed to work pretty well.

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