Dora:
Butchered
2.27 lbs sausage
350 lbs lard
Was tired when night came.
Ray:
28 degrees in am, 36 degrees in pm. Weather is Fair.
Butchered hogs today.
One weighed 685 other 500 also little white one 130-135.
Note: I'm thinking that Dora meant to say 227 lbs of sausage. That little dot there in the text isn't quite where it should be, and I can't imagine that if they butchered three hogs weighing over 1315 pounds that they would have gotten just 2.27 lbs of sausage. I think Dora was really tired.
Speaking of butchering...today most farmers send their animals off to be slaughtered and butchered elsewhere. I've watched my brothers cut up deer. It's hard physical work. Gruesome to the unseasoned, I suppose. Hogs, though? I can only imagine how hard that would be.
Another thought: I really wish I knew what spices they put in their sausage and how they did it. I'm thinking they would have done it the 'old' way, in the pigs own intestines, which in itself, would have added immensely to the amount of work of making sausage. The intestines would have had to be cleaned very well...
Cayla:
Had a great day with the kids. They played together very well, napped, and Maurice continued his potty training successes much to my absolute delight. I did laundry, and did other things around the house that needed to be done, like clean the coffee pot with vinegar, top off my nearly empty spice bottles, tidy up, put things away and so on.
Tarek came home and after dinner we made a Costco run.
I finished folding laundry after the kids went to bed.
What about you? Did you do anything close to butchering three hogs? Thoughts on sausage? Bueller...?
Tom and I made plenty of sausage when we worked at Henkels Meat Processing. You took the pigs intestines, turned them inside out, cleaned them in a solution and then filled them with sausage that Jane Sanderson made. You filled them up. Twisted them and then placed them in the smoker. That's how we made sausage. I also recall going out and butchering hogs and cows while working there. Funs times as a kid and great learning experiences.
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