Making sausages

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I'm interested in doing this because it's so hard to get preservative free sausages from the supermarket. The butcher in the next town sells them but they are incredibly expensive....and the dcs love them!

Does anyone make their own - do you have special sausage making equipment, where do you get your casings etc.

I have a Kitchen Aid, so I was going to get a mincing attachment for it. I think I need to buy a sausage stuffer too.

Any advice?

Sorry, no advice but am bumping because I'm intrigued and would love to make my own sausages.
I found this article and have seen a kitchen aid stuffer on amazon for about £14.
Will definitely be lurking on this thread.

Have the Kitchenaid mincer and stuffer attachment, and can also buy natural casings locally. The only thing I'm missing is a really good recipe for Old English sausages.

Good idea given the bad news on preservatives and our love of sausages. My gran made her own, she was generally an awful cook but she made lovely jam, pickles and sausages and pies. She basically used a large piping bag affair with a large plain nozzle and piped the mix into the skins. The skins was tied at one end and put over the back of a chair, filling piped in and then she twisted them. As a girl she helped out at a butchers and this was how they did them!

I make my own.
I have a sausage machine/mincer that was bought from Ascott smallholders supplies, but an old fashioned hand minced does that part quite well, and as a stuffer its not that good. You can buy one which is like a large syringe with a turning handle that would probably do just as well. You can use ox or pig runners for the casing, or Ascott will also sell you the artificial ones. I use the basic river cottage recipe, it's just minced belly pork with whatever you want added. Dd is coeliac, so we don't add any rusk or anything. Belly is best as its about 30% fat which gives a nice moist sausage. We make pork and apple, mustard, sage, I've even done pesto and Parmesan. They are lovely. It's such good fun, every one should try making sausages at least once!

Saggy, do you have the recipe you use? I have all the kit but have never gotten round to actually making the sausages for lack of a decent recipe.

I'll fish it out later, when I get up!