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Sausage Story

The photo story of how I got some British style bangers made in Italy.  The end result was very good and very tasty too!

First of all you need the right cut of pork.

First, you start with some meat and a smiling butcher, ideally called Piero:

Sausage meat in Italy
Sausage meat in Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

English sausage making in Italy
English sausage making in Italy

 

 

 

 

Next, you chop the meat into nice little pieces.

 

 

Mincing pork to make English sausages in Italy
Mincing pork to make English sausages in Italy

 

 

 

After that, you mince the stuff, like this.

 

 

 

Sausage meat!
Sausage meat!

 

 

 

And then mix it with the special sausage mix, to get this.

 

 

 

An Italian sausage maker making English bangers
An Italian sausage maker making English bangers

 

 

 

 

Then, it’s back to the mincing machine, for, well, more mincing.

 

 

 

 

 

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A sausage making Italian butcher shop owner
A sausage making Italian butcher shop owner

 

 

Of course, you need everything to be overseen by the boss, who was not too happy with the E-numbers in the sausage mix which had been brought over from the UK.

 

 

We have Sausage!
We have Sausage!

 

 

And the sausage mixture is then popped into the sausage making machine, and this job is made all the easier by having a Nisha and a Piero on hand.

 

 

Putting the twist in the sausages
Putting the twist in the sausages

 

 

 

Doing the twist.

 

 

 

Getting closer!
Getting closer!

 

 

 

 

And with a little deft manipulation, you get something like this.

 

 

 

Here we go: Super sausages!
And the above will be hung in readiness for the big night, by a Nisha:

 

And finally, we have this:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An other shot of the end result! They look good!
An other shot of the end result! They look good!

 

 

 

We have sausages! The end product in all their glory!
Yes, everything is just about ready for the grand sausage tasting tomorrow evening.

What a fun afternoon I had today, supervising, observing, and photographing the super sausage making process.

Oh, and I sneaked one of the bangers away for a trial tasting.  It was very tasty!

English style-sausage making objective reached!

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