There are many examples of sausages being made, all over Europe, during the 14th century, so I must assume they were eaten in Scotland, as well.\u00a0 Tough cuts of meat can easily be chopped fine, seasoned, stuffed into hog casings, and smoked for longer storage.\u00a0 My husband entered such a sausage (redacted for an Upper Crust book project of a 14th century manuscript of a Neapolitan cookbook)\u00a0 in the 2005 Pentathlon, — and we have used the recipe, faithfully, since.\u00a0 It is a good basic formula, and adapts to variations in seasoning choices quite well.\u00a0 \u00a0For this version, we chose seasonings found in a recipe from Lady Castlehill’s Receipt Book,<\/p>\n
To Make my Lady Cartrets Sausages:<\/strong><\/p>\n TAKE THE BELLY OF AN HOGG FAT AND LEAN, and cut it small with a knife, and when you have such a quantity as you desire, season it with some Salt Pepper, Nutemegs, Cloves and Mace, and so fill them into little Guts, thin scraped.\u00a0 You must put in a Pretty dale of Sage finely Chopt.<\/em><\/p>\n Also in 2005 Pentathlon, I entered two mustard recipes.\u00a0 One, a 16th century Pear Mustard<\/em>, was made with ground mustard seed, wine, and pear preserves, and was meant as a condiment for dried cod, of which I am anxious to try the combination!\u00a0 But the second entry was a Lumbard Mustard,<\/em> sweetened with honey, a 14th century recipe from France, but it was also made with wine — an expensive ingredient that would have to have been imported to Scotland.<\/p>\n I therefore turned, once again, to Lady Castlehill, to a recipe made with ale and apple cider vinegar, to accompany the (above) sausages:<\/p>\n To Make Mustard:<\/strong><\/p>\n TAKE YOUR MUSTARD SEED, dry it, and pound it, then sift it through a fine sieve, then put to it some Beer, Vinegar and horseradish, a litle Pepper, & a litle salt put it in a stone bottle, and keep it close stopt.<\/em><\/p>\n And, just as the 2005 Pentathlon judges declared, my mustard and my husband’s sausage made the perfect marriage!\u00a0 Delicious!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There are many examples of sausages being made, all over Europe, during the 14th century, so I must assume they were eaten in Scotland, as well.\u00a0 Tough cuts of meat can easily be chopped fine, seasoned, stuffed into hog casings, and smoked for longer storage.\u00a0 My husband entered such a sausage (redacted for an Upper … Continue reading “To Cook a Sausage”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becomingbeathog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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