Name: Texas Hill Country Sausage
Ingredients: 4 lb Pork butt with fat; 2 lb Beef chuck or round; with fat; 1 lg Onion; minced; 6 Cloves garlic; minced; 2 tb Fresh sage; minced; 1 tb Salt; 1 tb Fresh ground black pepper; 2 tb Crushed red pepper; 1 ts Cayenne; 4 Yards hog casings

Every true prayer has its background and its foreground. The foreground of prayer is the intense, immediate desire for a certain blessing which seems to be absolutely necessary for the soul to have; the background of prayer is the quiet, earnest desire that the will of God, whatever it may be, should be done. What a picture is the perfect prayer of Jesus in Gethsemane! In front burns the strong desire to escape death and to live; but behind there stands, calm and strong, the craving of the whole life for the doing of the will of God... Leave out the foreground, let there be no expression of the will of him who prays, and there is left a pure submission which is almost fatalism. Leave out the background, let there be no acceptance of the will of God, and the prayer is only an expression of self-will, a petulant claiming of the uncorrected choice of him who prays. Only when the two are there together, the special desire resting on the universal submission, the universal submission opening into the special desire is the picture perfect and the prayer complete.

Phillips Brooks

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Sausage	1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

4	lb	Pork butt with fat
2	lb	Beef chuck or round; with fat
1	lg	Onion; minced
6		Cloves garlic; minced
2	tb	Fresh sage; minced
1	tb	Salt
1	tb	Fresh ground black pepper
2	tb	Crushed red pepper
1	ts	Cayenne
4		Yards hog casings

INSTRUCTIONS

Coarse grind the meat. Mix in seasonings. Refrigerate over night. Prepare
casings. Stuff to 1" thick, 5" long and tie off. They can be frozen or
refrigerated at this time
To smoke: rub sausages with oil. Don't over do it or they get messy and
then turn to mush. Smoke at 225 for two hours with oak or mesquite until
the skin looks ready to pop.
Compliments of Garry's Home Cookin' http:/www.tiac.net/users/garhow/cooking
garhow@tiac.net
Recipe by: Smoke and Spice
Posted to bbq-digest V5 #529 by "Garry Howard" <garhow@tiac.net> on Sep 13,
1997

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