Sauce’s Beef Sausage Recipe

Just the EFFIN Recipe

Ingredients:

5 pounds ground beef

5 teaspoons salt

3 grams sage

1 to 1.5 teaspoons nutmeg

2 teaspoons pepper

2 teaspoons garlic powder

1 teaspoon red pepper flakes or paprika (for a milder option)

Instructions:

In a large bowl, combine all ingredients.

Mix thoroughly until the spices are evenly distributed.

Let sit in the fridge overnight (a day or two is also fine).

Form the mixture into patties, links, or leave it loose for crumbles.

Cook like you cook sausage – duh.

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Why Beef?

We find ourselves with tons of ground beef and no ground pork, so I had to do something. I took my Grandpa Darby’s breakfast sausage recipe and adapted it for beef. What I found is the spice ratio had to be higher because of the “beefy” flavor of the meat. I plan to try this with ground lamb next.

Flavor Without the Fuss

This sausage uses ground beef as the base, making it a great alternative for those who don’t eat pork or want something different.

Homegrown Cooking

To keep myself from going insane, I like to make a five-pound batch, cook the patties for one meal, and while that is cooking, form the rest of the patties. I place the extra patties on a cookie sheet with parchment paper under them. The next day, after they have frozen, I package them up in bags for easy “breakfast futures” or food that I can take on my trips to different homesteading and self-reliance events. I find the closer I stay to eating from my homestead, the better I feel.