Old Penrose Sausage Clone????

[Steve H]

My introduction to pickled Polish sausage was in 1966 in Viet Nam. The mother of a Polish friend sent them to him regularly. He was generous enough to share them with me and I was very grateful.
After returning home I never missed an opportunity when I would see a jar full of pickled sausage in a bar or wherever.

This recipe gets me as close as I need to be, very excellent! I use (2) 14 oz links of Hillshire Farm Polish Kielbasa which fills a quart canning jar (wide mouth works best). And I don't wait 2 weeks.
Thank you for posting.

If you liked those. Then you may want to give these a try. I've been tweaking my recipe around quite a bit. And came up with this:

Pickled red hots.

First, I'm sad to say that my 4 pints of hot pickled sausage and garlic went in the garbage. After setting for almost 2 months they just got too strong of a garlic flavor. Perhaps they would have been fine for others. But it was just too much for me. Meh, nothing ventured.... So, now I'm in need...

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These are the best I've made to date.

 

[forvols]

So I got about 6lbs of homemade natural casing stuffed smoked Kielbasa. You think that would be good to use a couple of lbs to try this brine on? The Kielbasa is not spicy.

 

[ddufore]

Nothing wrong with pickled kielbasa.

 

[maineac]

The Hillshire Farm Polish Kielbasa I use is not spicy. There is some heat in the brine but as always it's spice to your taste. I like the recipe as is but will at some point add a little more heat to the brine to experiment.
If you like pickled sausage you won't go wrong with this recipe, IMHO.

 

[forvols]

I love pickled sausage. I guess more I was wondering you think the natural casing would get tough vs a collagen casing? eh guess I just need to mix up a batch. Last go around (several replies and months ago) I used lil smokies..no aint none left and that version of the recipe was pretty dang good.

 

[maineac]

Can’t help you on the casings. There are worse things to experiment on. Good luck.

 

[HalfSmoked]

forvols I would try it that's where we get the old ideas is from people trying new ideas.

Warren

 

[tymidga]

I made a batch of these two days ago, made a few substitutions with what I had on hand. Gave them a taste today, very good. Even my wife got excited about them. Tonight I'll boil a couple of eggs and put it the jar.