Dora:
Fried sausage nearly all day. Washed up all the butcher tools. baked 8 jars sausage
Fried 5 gal of sausage [and] 4 gal liverworst.
Too icy to go to prayer meeting.
Ray:
36 degrees in am, 40 degrees in pm. Weather is Rainy
Took sausage to town in am.
At home in pm.
Cayla:
Here is more fuel for my idea that they got way more than 2.27 lbs of sausage out of all of those hogs. She fried sausage ALL day, 5 gallons of sausage and 4 gallons of liverworst (bleh!), and then BAKED 8 jars of sausage. I'm going to need more information on sausage preservation in 1913. Who knew you could bake a jar of sausage?
I did do some reading today and fresh sausage needs to be cured in some way to keep it. And I don't hear of them smoking the sausages... Hmmm... Can anyone enlighten me?
I do find it strange though, that they don't mention a ham or chops or ribs or what they did with anything else. Does anyone know if they had a smoke house back then?
Today was another 'at home' day for me. Took Maurice to pre-school and then picked up dry cleaning. Went to a lighting shop with Ada to look for kitchen lighting. Ran some other errands and then picked Maurice up from pre-school. During nap time I did some prep work for our outing this Saturday. Afternoon was slow. Maurice had a potty training set back in the evening. It's OK. I think he forgot.
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ReplyDeleteSpeaking of sausage making......I have a memory. I recall a contraption that would grind anything. It looked like this: http://housewares.about.com/od/kitchenwareaccessories/qt/alexanderwerk.htm I haven't seen it in many years and perhaps it was borrowed from Grammie or Aunt Jan but it attached to the dining room table and it ground meat with a hand crank. It had a wooded stick that you would push the meat down into the small hopper at the top and one of us would crank the handle while the other one would push the meat from the top with the wooden handle. The meat would come out the side and into a dish Mom would have placed under it. I recall making ground salman patties or hamburgers with it or sausage with it. I also recall fighting with my brothers over who got to crank and who got to push the meat down into the the hopper. Geoff was usually in charge. Jon and Tom were usually trying to figure out how it worked and Dan and I were fighting over who got to actually do the work while Geoff was busy smacking us both in the heads! lol All the while our poor Mother was only wanting to prepare lunch!! Boy, isn't she a saint? Great memories of using the grinder. Anyone else remember using this machince or remember what ever happened to this implement?
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