Back fat

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Back fat

Postby andrewe84 » Fri May 13, 2016 9:53 pm

This might be a daft question but.. The skin that comes with a joint, the bit that makes good crackling, can this be used as a source of fat in sausages?
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Re: Back fat

Postby NCPaul » Sun May 15, 2016 10:54 am

The skin can be used in sausage but not as fat. The way I've used it is to first boil it for 60-90 minutes until it can be pierced with a knife, then after cooling, grind three times before adding to the sausage mince. Another way to use it is to make a rind emulsion by combining cooked skin, back fat and water in a bowl chopper. This video shows the resulting rind emulsion before it gets run through some type of high speed disperser. Note that they keep it very cold through this process.
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A third way is to process the cooked skin with 10 % ice or stock in a bowl chopper (food processor for most of us) to form "skin-block", in German, schwartenblock. The skin is made of a protein called collagen which contains some gelatin. It gives the sausage a very "meaty" mouthfeel in my opinion and should help with water retention. It has very little nutritional value. It has a low cost, so it's use before labeling standards was probably much greater. As a starting point, I would suggest 5 % to a sausage to get a sense of it's effect.
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Re: Back fat

Postby wheels » Sun May 15, 2016 12:47 pm

Great post NCPaul. I've used it, but it's nicer made in to scratchings/chicharron IMO.

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