Christmas Sausage

[thostorey]

When I was a kid, a great number of years ago, one of the local butcher shop owners would prepare a specially spiced breakfast-type of sausage for sale during the Christmas season. Now I'm making sausages, a novice, I whish I knew what the spices were , but I can't think of what they might have been. Anyone have a recipe for what could be called Christmas sausages? or a suggestion for spices that one might use?

Thanks!

[Spuddy]

Classic Christmas spices that come to mind are cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, cloves, orange zest. Not sure what they'd be like in a sausage though.

[aris]

I'm taking a guess here, but if I were making a christmas sausage, i'd use similar spices and ingredients as I would with stuffing.

[TJ Buffalo]

Some people over at http://www.sausagemania.com/index.html had a recipe for an Alsatian Christmas sausage that seems interesting, though I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for. They've got an Excel spreadsheet on the site for scaling their recipes up. (http://www.sausagemania.com/recipes.html#alsatian)

[thostorey]

I guess that it stands to reason, to tase Christmas-ee it should contain some of the spices associated. I think I'll try the recipe over on the SausageMania site. I'll let you know!