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To Keep Sausages

A method for preserving sausages by cooking them, then covering with lard in a sealed container.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Keep Sausages

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Prick the sausages with a fork.

  2. Heat a frying pan over medium-high heat.

  3. Cook the sausages in the pan until browned on all sides.

Preserve

  1. Transfer the cooked sausages to a crock.

  2. Cover the sausages with lard and seal the container.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Sausages
Browning on the outside gives flavour and a firm surface before they are sealed.
Lard
Fat that covers the sausages and excludes air, helping keep them preserved.

The step that matters

Cook the sausages until browned on all sides. Browning only some sides leaves parts of the sausage less cooked before sealing. Cooking them through before covering with lard helps them keep well in the fat.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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