[benjaminjjones]

Re: scrapple & Yack!

I've never watched sausage being made, and don't ever intend to, but I sure love to eat 'em!

If you really want to yack about scrapple, read this disgusting little vignette on how to make old-fashioned homemade scrapple. (scroll down to the second recipe)

I'm a firm believer that there's some stuff you're just better off not knowing, mostly when it comes to tasty meat products.

[squibs]

Grew up on the farms of both grandfathers.
Stirred the kettles into my teens.
Hog butchering was a yearly tradition.
cooking and pressing lard. ( my arteries are still
thin as needles to this day from eating cracklins.
They never used the stuff in that other recipe.
Just cheek meat , hocks , kidneys and such.
The Amish "ponhaus" (sp) is just a slightly different
recipe. I printed out the better recipe to make at home.
Can't get any good stuff in Pittsburgh like Wrights Liquid
Smoke , Real hog casings, or Tender Quick. Have to drive
165 miles 1 way to center of state to get supplies to make bologna.