Meats and Sausages
Blutwurst mit Graupen (Blood Sausage with Pearl Barley)
German blood sausage with pearl barley.
| Materials | Metric | US |
|---|---|---|
| Meat trimmings* | 400 g | 0.88 lb |
| Fat trimmings | 150 g | 0.44 lb |
| Fat from meat stock | 50 g | 1.76 oz |
| Pork blood | 200 g | 200 ml |
| Pearl barley | 200 g | 0.44 lb |
Ingredients per 1000g (1 kg) of materials
| Salt | 18 g | 3 tsp |
| Cure #1 | 2.0 g | 1/2 tsp |
| Pepper | 2.0 g | 1 tsp |
| Marjoram, rubbed | 3.0 g | 3 tsp |
| Allspice | 1.0 g | 1/2 tsp |
| Nutmeg | 1.0 g | 1/2 tsp |
| Cinnamon | 0.5 g | 1/4 tsp |
| Cloves, ground | 0.3 g | 1/8 tsp |
| Onions, chopped | 30 g | 1/2 small onion |
Instructions
- Cure meats (optional).** Cook meats in a little water until soft. Separate meat from any bones. Save meat stock.
- Place oats in 400 ml of boiling meat stock, lower temperature and simmer for 25 minutes until soft, but not overcooked.
- Grind all meats, fat and skins and onions through 3 mm (1/8") plate.
- Mix ground meats, fats, skins, oats, onions with blood and all ingredients together.
- Stuff into 40 mm synthetic waterproof casings forming 50 cm (20") loops.
- Cook in water at 80° C (176° F) for 50 minutes.
- Immerse in cold water for 5 minutes. Finish cooling in air.
- Refrigerate.
Notes
* head meat, masks, offal meat: (heart, liver, lungs), jowls, skins, hocks.
** head meat, tongues and heart develop a nice red color when cured with sodium nitrite. Even blood maintains nicer color when treated with sodium nitrite. It will be is impractical to use dry cure for split heads and that is why they are cured with wet solution which can penetrate each crevice of the skull. Tongues and heart are also cured with wet solution.
Wet curing solution: make 40° Salometer brine (10° Baume):
1 gal water, 333 g (0.73 lb) salt, Cure #1, 120 g (4.2 oz).
Immerse meats for 3-5 days in curing solution. About 3/4 quart (710 ml) of brine is needed for 1 kg of meat.
Whole or steel cuts should be used, not the breakfast flattened oats.
** head meat, tongues and heart develop a nice red color when cured with sodium nitrite. Even blood maintains nicer color when treated with sodium nitrite. It will be is impractical to use dry cure for split heads and that is why they are cured with wet solution which can penetrate each crevice of the skull. Tongues and heart are also cured with wet solution.
Wet curing solution: make 40° Salometer brine (10° Baume):
1 gal water, 333 g (0.73 lb) salt, Cure #1, 120 g (4.2 oz).
Immerse meats for 3-5 days in curing solution. About 3/4 quart (710 ml) of brine is needed for 1 kg of meat.
Whole or steel cuts should be used, not the breakfast flattened oats.
