Recipe: Summer Sausage with Variations

Summer Sausage
From: Christine,.IA
This goes well with the fire and ice pickles

Basic Sausage Mix
5 lbs Hamburger
5 Tablespoons Tender Quick - Found in supermarket next to the salt
2 teaspoons course ground black pepper
Mix the beef, tender quick and spices thoroughly, cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.

The above instructions are for making the basic beef recipe. Add the following amounts of herbs and spices prior to refrigeration and mix thoroughly to gain a specific type of sausage with a different flavor:

Smokey Summer Sausage
2 tsp garlic powder, 2 tsp mustard, 1 Tablespoon Liquid Hickory Smoke

Italian Sausage
2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp cayenne pepper, 2 tsp cracked fennel seeds, 2 tsp coriander

Salami Sausage
2 tsp ground white pepper, tsp ginger, tsp garlic powder

Cooking Instructions
Shape into 5 rolls, about 1 lb each. Bake on a broiler rack in oven for 2 hours and 25 minutes at 275 degrees. Cool, slice, and serve.