TABLE OF CONTENTS for
Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing
Preface to the Revised Edition
Introduction
How It All Began
1
7
8
CHAPTER I
Curing Meat
Artery Pumping
Brining Meat
Cures
Reusing Brines
Spray (or stitch)Pumping
Vacuum Packing
13
30
36
37
39
32
49
CHAPTER II
Smoking Meat
Smoke Generators
Smokehouse Controls
Smoking Procedures
Stuffers & Grinders
55
61
75
65
90
CHAPTER III
Natural Casings
Salted Casings
103
114
CHAPTER IV
Collagen and Synthetic Fibrous Casings
Curved Collagen Casings
Fibrous Casings
123
126
129
CHAPTER V
Selecting and Storing Meat
Refrigeration
Sanitation
Grinding Meat
Meat Combinations
141
143
144
157
163
CHAPTER VI
Permissable Ingredients in Meat Processing
Salt
Sweetners
Spices
164
167
169
172
CHAPTER VII
Fresh Sausage
Diet Sausage
Making Patties
180
181
185
CHAPTER VIII
Smoked and Cooked Sausages
Emulsified Sausage
199
200
CHAPTER IX
Specialty Loaves and Sausage 265
CHAPTER X
Game Meat 290
CHAPTER XI
Specialty Meat 305
CHAPTER XII
Semi-Dry Cured Sausage
Relative Humidity
Sodium Acetate
Air Drying
Dry Curing, Government Specifications
Dry Curing Cooked Sausage
Sausage Drying Rooms
343
346
347
349
352
353
358
CHAPTER XIII
Dry Cured Sausage And Meat
Dry Curing Ham
381
382
CHAPTER XIV
Fish and Seafood
Preservation and Smoking
409
410
CHAPTER XV
Wholesome Meat Act
Building Specifications
452
455
CHAPTER XVI
Opening a Sausage Kitchen
How I Got Into Sausage Making
Kitchen Layout
461
466
488
CHAPTER XVII
100-lb. Meat Combination Formulas 492
CHAPTER XVIII
Canning 503
CHAPTER XIX
Favorite Recipes
Glossary
Spice Conversions
Index
531
541
550
557