Northern italian-style hot or sweet sausage

Yield: 20 Servings

Ingredients:

3 Feet medium (2-inch Diameter) hog casings
2 1/2 lb Lean pork butt cubed
1/2 lb Pork fat cubed
1 1/2 ts Salt or to taste
2 ts Freshly coarse ground Black pepper
2 ts Finely ground coriander
2 cl Garlic finely minced
1 ts Crushed red pepper for

Instructions:

Hot sausage or to taste This variety is easy to make and is delicious roasted or used to

flavor tomato sauce. To make three pounds: 1. Prepare the casings. 2.

Grind the meat and fat together through the coarse disk. 3. Mix the

remaining ingredients together with the meat. 4. Stuff into the

casings and twist off into three-inch links. 5. Refrigerate and use

within three days or freeze.

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Title: NORTHERN SPY APPLE FRITTERS

Categories: Breads

Yield: 15 Servings

3/4 c Yellow cornmeal

1/2 c All-purpose flour

2 tb Baking powder

6 tb Sugar

1 pn Of salt

1 Egg

1/2 c Milk

1 1/2 c Vegetable oil for frying

1 Northern Spy apple, peeled,

-cored and chopped

2 tb Vegetable oil

Confectioner's sugar for

-garnish

Combine all dry ingredients (except for confectioners sugar). Add

liquid ingredients (except for 1 1/2 cups of oil) one at a time,

stirring between additions. Mix in apple. Let batter sit for 10

minutes. In a 1-quart saucepan over medium high-heat, heat the oil

until it crackles, not quite to the smoking point. Take precautionary

measures for using hot oil! Drop batter into the oil 1 tbls. at a

time (get close so the oil doesn't splash). Fry only 2 or 3 fritters

at a time. Don't crowd the pan. Flip the fritters over and remove

onto a paper towel when golden brown. Sprinkle with confectioners

sugar and serve.

Makes 15 to 18 fritters.

From the cookbook, Apples" by Robert Berkley