Best Smoked Bologna Or Summer Sausage Recipes

SMOKED BOLOGNA

Steps:

• Preheat your smoker to 225 degrees F. I like a good hickory or apple wood for smoke.
• Using the tip of a sharp knife, score the bologna about 1/8th of an inch thick in a diamond pattern on all sides of the bologna.
• Slather the bologna chub with the yellow mustard and then sprinkle all around with the sweet rub, opening the slits slightly with your fingers to get that seasoning into the cuts you just made.
• Smoke with the lid closed for at least 3 hours, but up to 4 hours. Bologna is pre-cooked, so you're just going to the amount of color and smoke flavor on the outside of your bologna that you like.
• During the last 30 minutes, brush on all sides with the BBQ sauce.
• Slice warm into small cubes and serve as an appetizer or chill completely and slice as thin or thick as you like for smoked bologna sandwiches.

WILD GAME SUMMER SAUSAGE RECIPE

Steps:

• While keeping everything ice cold (see methods for fresh sausage), combine the game meat, pork fat, and all of the other ingredients except for the Fermento, water, and casings in a large bowl.
• Mix to combine with your hands. Work in small batches if you need to, and don't be afraid to throw the meat back in the fridge or freezer, or into a cooler with ice, to get chilled again.
• Using the 1/4-inch plate on your grinder, grind the meat mixture into the bowl set over ice.
• Change out the grinder plate to the 3/16-inch plate and pass the mixture through the grinder again.
• Meanwhile, dissolve the Fermento in the water and stir with a spoon.
• Add to the ground meat mixture and again mix with your hands, or throw the meat mixture in the bowl of a standing mixer and mix on low, until it's all incorporated.
• Press a piece of plastic wrap over the surface of the meat, making sure there are no air bubbles. Then wrap the bowl with a second layer of plastic wrap and set it in the fridge for 2 days to ferment.
• Make a little test patty and cook it up in a sauté pan to be sure you got the seasonings right. Adjust them if you didn't. Then, using a sausage stuffer, stuff the sausage into the casings.
• Let the stuffed casings rest in the fridge to dry out for 1-2 hours.
• While the stuffed sausages are resting, soak a panful of applewood chips for 20 minutes.
• Preheat the smoker to 112°-130°.
• Set the pan of chips in the smoker. Lay or hang the sausages in the smoker.
• Smoke for about 60 minutes at this temperature, then raise the temperature to 180°.
• Smoke until the internal temperature reaches 150°, which will probably take 2-3 hours, depending on your particular smoker and the ambient temperature.
• Keep refilling the pan of apple wood chips as they get low.
• When the sausages are done, let them hang at room temperature for 1 hour to cool, then wrap well and refrigerate. They can be frozen for several months.

SMOKED BOLOGNA OR SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• We use mostly mesquite, but I know this would be delicious with hickory.
• Whether I buy a 5lb chub of bologna or 2 lb roll of summer sausage I always cut it in half longways. I think this allow the smoke to evenly penetrate the meat.
• Time will vary depending on what temp you are smoking with. We smoked the bologna for about 2 hrs at 225°. The summer sausage takes about 1 hr. at the heat.
• I always cube the summer sausage and serve as a snack or appetizer, it's great with smoked cheese.
• The bologna I sliced and browned on my griddle before serving as a side for breakfast at supper.

SMOKED SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• 1. Combine ground meat with all remaining ingredients(except casings)in a large mixing bowl,mix/knead thoroughly up to 2 minutes. (to prepare fibrous casings soak 15 min. in warm water prior to using.
• 2. Taste test by frying a small amount(a size of a quarter or so) a patty to see if you approve the flavor. Make changes if needed.
• 3. Stuff seasoned meat mixture into casings of your choice; refrigerate overnight to cure.
• 4. SMOKER PROCESSING After sausage product has been seasoned,stuffed & cured overnight, hang the sausage product in smoker, carefully positioning so that it's not touching one another. 2. If you have a digital thermometer timer, push the probe into the center of one of the sausages, set the temperature alarm at 152 degrees F. 3. Begin the first hour by setting the temp. to 130-140 degrees; open the smoker damper wide open until the product is dry (tacky) to the touch 4.At beginning of second hr. close damper & adjust smoker temp. to 150-260 degrees & apply smoke for 1hr.and 20 min.Longer is optional if you prefer a heavy smoke. 5.At beginning of the 3rd hr. adjust smoker heat to 170 degrees. Maintain until internal temperature of the sausage product reaches 152 degrees internally at which time the sausage is fully cooked
• 5. Cooling Down the product: Remove sausages from smoker & shower with cool water to stop the cooking process, shower(spray) product until the internal temp of product drops to 120 degreesF.
• 6. Product is ready to eat. Remainder should be packaged & frozen until needed. Venison lovers can grind 9lbs. of trimmed venison and 1lb. beef fat for 10 lbs. of sausage sticks or summer/salami type sausages..enjoy

VENISON CHEDDAR-JALAPENO SUMMER SAUSAGE

Steps:

• Stir the water, curing mixture, mustard seed, garlic powder, black pepper, and liquid smoke in a large bowl until the curing mixture has dissolved. Mix in the ground venison, Cheddar cheese, and jalapeno peppers; mix until evenly blended and somewhat sticky, about 3 minutes. Divide the mixture in half, and roll each half into 2 inch thick logs. Wrap each log tightly with aluminum foil, and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Preheat an oven to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil, then remove the foil from the sausage logs, and place them onto the baking sheet.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the internal temperature reaches 170 degrees F (75 degrees C), 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Cool the sausages on a rack until they have cooled to room temperature. Dab occasionally with a paper towel to absorb excess grease. Slice thinly to serve.