Alaska Llamas Blog

If you are fortunate enough to have some moose meat (or any wild game) in your freezer, here's a great recipe for making summer sausage.  Homemade Summer Sausage Recipe for Moose or Wild Game  (This recipe makes 66 lbs. of sausage) Enjoy! Prepare a very large mixing basin. You will need a very large container to properly mix ingredients with a minimum of effort! ( Our largest cooler provides the necessary volume.) Grind 25 lbs of wild game. (We use moose or deer.) Add 8 lbs of ground pork. Add summer sausage mix. We use Excalibur Summer Sausage seasoning mix (product code 0300010 available from Alaska Butcher Supply.) This seasoning weighs 1.4375 lbs and is supposed to mix with 25 lbs of meat. However, to reduce salt, we prefer to add it to 33 lbs of meat which doesn't seem to compromise the taste. There are other seasoning mixes that will work.  Add 1 to 1.5 pounds of grated cheese (optional). Add the desired amount of jalapenos (optional). We