aussieinor wrote:For a bratwurst or Italian sausage, would you recommend Soy Concentrate or Soy Isolate?
I have a few people ordering now as they like the cumberlands and lincolnshire and now want to make some brats and italian style. I would like to have the meat go a little further using some soy and providing a good texture.
I don't want it to have a cumberland texture though.
Cheers.
From Wikipedia (re Bratwurst)
The original probably comes from the region of Thuringia, where it is traditionally known as Th�ringer Rostbratwurst. The oldest known recipe is from 1432.[1]. Documents discovered in 2000 in the Weimar city archives by Hubert Erzmann, an amateur historian, codify the law regarding production of Thuringian Rostbratwurst. These laws would make bratwurst one of the world's first regulated foods
Thuringian sausage has been produced for hundreds of years. The oldest known reference to a Thuringian sausage is located in the Thuringian State Archive in Rudolstadt in a transcript of a bill from an Arnstadt convent from the year 1404...
Only finely minced pork, beef, or sometimes veal, is used in production. In addition to salt and pepper, caraway, marjoram, and garlic are used. The specific spice mixtures can vary according to traditional recipes or regional tastes...
According to German meat law, the Hackfleischverordnung, raw sausages must be used on the day of their creation or until the closing of a late-night establishment. Previously grilled sausages have 15 days, and sausages immediately frozen after their creation have up to six months to be stored.
Am I missing something here?
I realise that Bratwurst is just a term in German for a type of sausage but the general characteristic (certainly of those listed by Len Poli) is that they don't have any rusk/filler.
If you add soya (particularly for bulk rather than say the small amount used to 'stabilise' a smoked sausage) Won't it cease to be a Bratwurst?
I'm not for one minute saying it will, but it's an interesting one. How far can you alter a recipe before it ceases to be the original?
Phil
