Sausage Making....Smith Style......

Thanks to Mimi and her generous population of whitetail deer, we were able to add about 30 pounds of lean deer meet to the freezer....for further processing. Today, Tyler and I decided to dive in to the task. Audra and I purchased 22lbs of Pork, Boston Butts to fatten up the sausage.

First was all the processing and trimming of meat.

My 'hand-crank' grinder did the task, grinding 43 lbs of meat.... twice. Yep, first there is the course grind and then there is the fine grind.

Everyone pitched in to turn the crank.... even Audra!

The new, vacuum seal machine 'worked liked a top'.

We ended up with 37 packages of breakfast sausage.

And yep.... it cooked up in excellent fashion!!!