Old Time Venison Breakfast Sausage

Name: Old Time Venison Breakfast Sausage
Ingredients: This venison breakfast sausage recipe has been around since my grandfather was a boy, and he was born in the 19th century. It calls for sage, a common breakfast sausage ingredient.; More uniquely, it also calls for the addition of mace to the spice mixture.; Mace is the ground outer covering of the nutmeg. It is very similar in flavor to nutmeg but is more delicate.; I speculate mace may have been less expensive than nutmeg back in those days because it was a by-product, but who knows for sure. I do know it makes for great tasting venison breakfast sausage.; 4 lbs vension; 1 lb pork fatback, very well chilled; 2 teaspoons ground mace; 2 teaspoons rubbed sage; 1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt; 3 cloves chopped fresh garlic (or 2 teaspoons granulated); 1 cup ice water

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This venison breakfast sausage recipe has been around since my grandfather was a boy, and he was born in the 19th century. It calls for sage, a common breakfast sausage ingredient.

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More uniquely, it also calls for the addition of mace to the spice mixture.

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Mace is the ground outer covering of the nutmeg. It is very similar in flavor to nutmeg but is more delicate.

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I speculate mace may have been less expensive than nutmeg back in those days because it was a by-product, but who knows for sure. I do know it makes for great tasting venison breakfast sausage.

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4 lbs vension

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1 lb pork fatback, very well chilled

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2 teaspoons ground mace

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2 teaspoons rubbed sage

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1 tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon kosher salt

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3 cloves chopped fresh garlic (or 2 teaspoons granulated)

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1 cup ice water

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