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This recipe was selected by Sol-land Lodge members for Nordic Fest 2010 after a taste test at the May 2010 Lodge meeting
4½ lbs minced fat and pork 1 teaspoon paprika powder
4 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons pepper
2 teaspoons chili powder
2 tablespoons fresh sage1-cup water
2 tablespoons fresh thymePig intestine/casing
(30mm thickness is recommended)
Mix all ingredients well. Fill about 3 feet of casing. Make knots between links. Put small holes in the sausages with a fork before frying them or they can be boiled.

Sausages cook in about 15 minutes.

Serve alone or on lefse. Garnish with mustard of your choice.

Tips:
Meat:
If you want to grind pork meat yourself, make sure you have a mix of lean and fat pork. You can grind with the usual meat grinder or food processor. Alternatively, you can use minced meat (beef) with pork meat half of each and every one gets a slightly more powerful and more compact sausage. One can also make sausages with lamb. A mixture of lamb and beef can provide many opportunities.

Spices:
You can also use your favorite spices to tailor to your own taste (i.e. caraway, herbs, garlic and / or raisins).

Casing / sausage skins
There are also other thicknesses of the intestines, but the thinner they are (Viennese bowel = 20 mm) the more fragile they become and the harder they are to work with (cracks).

Fat:
There is no good substitute for pork lard. Fat from lamb or cattle have a strong taste, which most do not like.