Pickled and I hope. Hot sausage!

[Steve H]

And this will be round three on my pickled hot sausage venture. My first go was with the Penrose sausage recipe. While they were ok. They just didn't meet my expectations. My second go was more hot spices. Again better then the first. And after they set for a month they were very close to what I wanted. Now for my 3rd attempt I did the following:
Three packs of Johnsonville pork kielbasa cut in half and packed in two 1 quarts jars.
For the brine:
1 quart cider vinegar
3/4 cup Franks hot sauce
2 tsp dried minced onions
2 tbs red pepper flakes
2 tbs cayenne pepper
1 tbs white pepper. Or black. I was out of the latter.
2 tsp franks dried spice
2 tsp powdered garlic
2 tbs sea salt

All these go into a non-reactive pot and brought to a boil. If you follow this recipe please be sure to have either your range vent on high and/or a window open. The fumes were practically military in nature. Think tear gas! And poured into each jar leaving a 1/2" head space. I'm letting these set for a month, I hope

 

[bill ace 350]

Looking good!
What is Frank's spice?

 

[fivetricks]

 

[crazymoon]

SH, Looking good ,I'm in !

 

[bill ace 350]

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thanks. I never knew they had that. I use Frank's Red Hot sauce in my pickled sausage

 

[Steve H]

Yup, that's the stuff. It is great sprinkled on popcorn!

 

[smokerjim]

they are looking good, been a while sense I had some pickled sausage, got me thinking of the old bar day's, they always tasted better after a couple of beer's,

 

[forvols]

Did you use little smokies in previous recipes or kielbas. I used little smokies but will try this one with the kielbasa

 

[Steve H]

Did you use little smokies in previous recipes or kielbas. I used little smokies but will try this one with the kielbasa

My first go at it was the lil smokies. My second was with whole Johnsonville Kielbasa. The last one was with the Johnsonville Kielbasa. But I cut them in half this time.

 

[tx smoker]

P.S. I'm also thinking about doing some pickled eggs. Used to get those out of a huge jar sitting on the counter of the little country store I went to as a kid. God I loved those things :-)

 

[Steve H]

P.S. I'm also thinking about doing some pickled eggs. Used to get those out of a huge jar sitting on the counter of the little country store I went to as a kid. God I loved those things :-)

I bet this brine would work well with eggs too.

 

[tx smoker]

Sorry so late to be jumping into this fracas but I decided to make some spicy pickled garlic. I have about a hundred cloves of fresh garlic that went into the brine about 2 hours ago. These should be really good!!

Now for the long wait.....
Robert