Summer Sausage
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Cooking:
20 min.
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Servings per container:
60
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Ingredients for - Summer Sausage

1. Ground beef - 5 pounds
2. Mustard seed - ¼ cup
3. Garlic powder - 3 tablespoons
4. Sugar-based curing mixture (such as Morton® Tender Quick®) - 5 teaspoons
5. Red pepper flakes - 1 tablespoon
6. Salt - 1 tablespoon
7. Cayenne pepper - 1 teaspoon
8. Hickory-flavored liquid smoke - ½ teaspoon

How to cook deliciously - Summer Sausage

1. Stage

Mix beef, mustard seed, garlic powder, curing mixture, pepper flakes, salt, cayenne, and liquid smoke together in a large bowl until well combined. Cover with plastic, and refrigerate for three days, mixing well once a day.

2. Stage

On the fourth day, preheat the oven to 200 degrees F (100 degrees C). Line a sheet pan with a wire rack.

3. Stage

Shape the mixture into five logs; place logs onto the wire rack.

4. Stage

Transfer the rack and sheet pan into the preheated oven and bake for 8 hours. Remove from the oven and transfer sausages to paper towels to cool. Let cool completely, about 1 hour, then wrap logs individually in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for at least 3 hours before slicing.