Now comes the fun part, we get to add the secret ingredient. The secret ingredient is a nice, dry, white wine. You can use red wine, me personally, I found the red wine, I don’t think gives it quite as much flavor, or as unique a flavor as the white wine does, but if you think you like it, then go with what you like. If you like red wine, red wine. If you like white wine, white wine. Try both, see which one you like. This stuff is very easy to make, and you can play with it and do whatever you need to do.
We’re probably looking at Id say roughly, we’re going to use about a cup. I like to just pour it in. We don’t want to make it too awful wet, but that should be. Now again, I use my nose and I say, I can’t quite smell it the way I like, so I put a little bit more in, and that should be enough for us right there.
Now, we’re going to add our cracked black pepper, not a whole lot. Remember, we put some red pepper flakes in, so we’re just going to add enough just to give it some of that black pepper flavor because the black pepper flavor is actually a lot different than a red pepper. So probably in a quantity like this, we may have just put in like maybe a tablespoon or maybe two teaspoons but not a whole lot.
So, what we’re going to do at this point is we’re going to start mixing this meat. This is where we get dirty. Take your hands, and just start mixing everything together. Squeeze it, move it, turn it, flip it, just mix all those ingredients in with that ground meat. And you’re going to start smelling the wine. You’re going to start smelling all these flavors starting to come together.
Now typically what I'll do is, I'll take and make a patty, and I'll fry a patty, and then I'll check it, and we’ll see just what the flavor is. And then if it needs to be adjusted, it can be adjusted. Today, I've been making sausage quite a while and I pretty much so know what its going to turn out like. So today, we’re going to save some time, and we’re actually not going to do that, but here we go.
So now we have this all mixed and incorporated. I guess like get your hands in there, and it’s like making a good meat loaf. If you make a good meat loaf, you've got to get your hands dirty. So, mix it all up and next, when we come back, we’re going to run this through the grinder another time, fine grind it, and then we’re going to start casing.
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