A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat (minced meat), ground pork fat such as fatback, salt, and spices (sometimes with other ingredients such as herbs). Typically the sausage is formed in a casing. Traditionally, sausage casings are made of animal intestines, though now some casings are synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing, and the casing may be removed after that. Sausage making is a traditional food preser...
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A sausage is a prepared food, usually made from ground meat (minced meat), ground pork fat such as fatback, salt, and spices (sometimes with other ingredients such as herbs). Typically the sausage is formed in a casing. Traditionally, sausage casings are made of animal intestines, though now some casings are synthetic. Some sausages are cooked during processing, and the casing may be removed after that. Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying in cool air, or smoking.
Sausages are a result of economical butchery. Traditionally, sausage-makers put to use meat and animal parts equally edible and nutritious, but not particularly appealing - such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat - in a form that allows for preservation: typically, salted and stuffed into a tubular casing made from the cleaned intestine of the animal, producing the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings and salami are amongst the...
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