my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

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my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby puddlejumper » Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:32 am

My wife and I have just started making our own sausages as there is a lack of any good sausages here in
Arizona. In keeping with tradition and following the guidelines for making Cumberland style sausages I used the following recipe.

7lbs pork shoulder
1.4 lbs pork belly fat
14.4 oz rusk
14 fluid oz cold water
4.2 oz seasoning mix (as listed below)
Hog casings

Seasoning:

2.75 oz salt
3 tsp black pepper
3 tsp white pepper
1/6 tsp cayenne pepper
3.75 tsp corriander
1.5 tsp mace
3 tblsp sage
3.5 tsp thyme

Please feel free to try the recipe, the flavour is awesome.
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Re: my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby DanMcG » Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:33 am

Welcome to the forums Puddlejumper. Your recipe sounds good to me.
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Re: my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby wheels » Sat Jan 04, 2014 9:31 pm

Hi Puddlejumper, welcome. :D

I'm sure that your sausage complies with the Cumberland PGI, and tastes great. But to me, all that sage and thyme just isn't Cumberland. I know thyme is included in the PGI, but have yet to hear mention of it from any long established butchers from the PGI area (Cumbria). Yet, I have heard chives mentioned by two sources - including the leader of the Cumberland sausage Association!

The best I've had recently was from a farm shop near Kendal, they told me that they use salt, pepper, and a little mace. I'm guessing that there was a little nutmeg/coriander in there as well. Certainly this is backed up by forum member Sausagemaker's recipe - he lives in the PGI area and works in the sausage industry.

That's not to say that herbs wouldn't have been added. But this seems more prevalent in the parts of the Cumberland PGI area that were originally Westmoreland and N. Lancashire.

That said, enjoy the sausage. :D :D :D

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Re: my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby quietwatersfarm » Sat Jan 04, 2014 10:15 pm

Cumberland, shmumberland! :)

I now have four favourite Cumberland recipes - Customers look positively dizzy when I explain that "this is a Cumberland, and this is, and so is this" :) :)

BTW who is/was Polly Perkins?
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Re: my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby wheels » Sun Jan 05, 2014 12:52 am

I know. I'm a pedant!

quietwatersfarm wrote:Cumberland, shmumberland! :)
BTW who is/was Polly Perkins?


Ask Oddley, not me!

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Re: my first attempt at making cumberland sausages.

Postby quietwatersfarm » Sun Jan 05, 2014 11:14 am

Genuinely tricky though, with such a vague definition. So many are perfectly 'genuine' and delicious too. Never know which to stick with!! :)
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