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Make Your Own Seasoning for Breakfast Sausage

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February 13, 2015 by Kendra 2 Comments

I don’t know when I last purchased breakfast sausage. Most of the breakfast sausage that is found in the stores makes me feel yuck. One brand in particular really affects me, and NOT in a good way. That’s why we make our own seasoning for breakfast sausage.

How to make your own breakfast sausage seasoning. Delicious sausage without msg or preservatives!

The summer I turned 5 (I think), my grandpa discovered a small piglet in the ditch. I believe he managed to track down the farmer who had lost her, and was told he could keep the piglet if he wished.

The night he found “Miss Piggy” as we called her, Grandpa brought her to our house to show my brother and I. She was a scrawny little mite whose squeal was bigger than she was.

Then Grandpa took Miss Piggy into the bathroom where little brother was enjoying his bath. I’m not sure who squealed the loudest, my brother or Miss Piggy! He was soooo scared of her. 🙂

seasoning for breakfast sausage

That winter we butchered her. My grandparents, parents, aunt, uncles and cousins all helped cut, grind and package the meat. I imagine the families then split the meat; being only 5 at the time though, I do not remember.

A tradition was born that winter. Each year following that first one, we would purchase hogs to butcher. The only difference is we didn’t raise any more, preferring to buy them already filled out instead.

 

The memories I have from that time and the winters following, are good ones. Now it’s just my family, but there are 13 of us, so still more than that first time we butchered.

My mom, siblings and I butchered and cut up two hogs last week. It was a long day and cutting up cold meat can be miserable, but oh we have so much fun!  All the guys think they are just soooo smart and funny, and the rest of us go between laughing at them, and wishing they would just shut up!

Mixing sausage for breakfast meat.

Originally we simply put salt, pepper and sage in our sausage; but when my mom created the best seasoning for breakfast sausage we began using that most of the time. If I recall right, mother said she made 5 pounds of breakfast seasoning, and we used it all!

Packaging sausage with family

The recipe below makes a pound of seasoning for breakfast sausage, which will season approximately 36 pounds of sausage. Just use 1 tablespoon of seasoning for 1 pound of sausage.

 Seasoning for Breakfast Sausage

Seasoning for Breakfast Sausage Recipe
 

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If you prefer to season your own sausage, this seasoning for breakfast sausage is perfect. Mix up a large batch and season up to 36 pounds of sausage at a time.
Author: Kendra ~A Proverbs 31 Wife
Recipe type: Seasoning
Serves: 1 pound

Ingredients
  • 16 tablespoons Salt
  • 10 tablespoons Brown Sugar
  • 8 tablespoons Ground Sage
  • 5 tablespoons Black Pepper
  • 2½ teaspoons Paprika
  • ¾ teaspoon Nutmeg
  • ¾ teaspoon Thyme
  • ½ teaspoon Cayenne
  • ½ teaspoon Celery Powder
  • ½ teaspoon Ground Cloves
  • ⅛ teaspoon Onion Powder

Instructions
  1. Measure out all spices into a bowl and blend together well.
  2. Use 1 tablespoon of breakfast seasoning per pound of sausage.

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Respectful opinions are always welcome

  1. BonJon says

    August 9, 2019 at 12:12 pm

    I’m married to a sausage fiend. BUT There are a lot of breakfast sausages out there, brands, and recipes. They vary all over the map. My crew likes exactly one brand: Jimmy Dean. Period. So my dumb question of the day is: how does this recipe compare to Jimmy Dean sausage? Although, with all the sausage your family makes, you may not know! Hoping you could say if it was similar, to save me the work and price of yet another sausage failed experiment …

    Love the photos of your family with the meat! Mom raised chicken once. She wanted to sell eggs for extra money. They sold her 100 baby roosters. We butchered them all in 1 day with whole family helping, just like yours is in the photo. Those are always the best memories. Not the days you celebrate, but the days you come together to get a job done, then share the bounty.

    Also, when you make sausage, do you add any vinegar? Most sausage recipes use vinegar or water to make a slurry of the dry spices, so they mix better into the meat. But my Hungarian friend insists spices should go in dry, only dry.

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    • Kendra says

      August 12, 2019 at 3:20 pm

      The spices go in dry. As for tasting like Jimmy Dean… Adding pepper may get it closer to that taste, but the short answer is no. It doesn’t really taste like Jimmy Dean.

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