How to Use a Sausage Stuffer as a Fruit Press

Make fresh fruit juice with your sausage stuffer.

Sausage stuffers grind and push raw meat into skin casings, to create professional-looking homemade sausages. These machines can also be used to press fruits to make jellies, jams, butters and wines. The sausage stuffing machine separates the seeds, stems and cores of the fruits to produce a liquid and a pulp.

Things You'll Need

• Sausage stuffer
• Colander
• Detergent
• Scourer
• Fruit
• Bowl

Instructions

1. Open the main compartment of the sausage stuffer. On some of the older models this requires loosening several screws and pulling it open.

2. Rinse the fruits under some cold water and insert them into the opening of the sausage stuffer.

3. Adjust the size of the pulp opening to suit your desired thickness. If you want a smooth fruit juice, for example, make the opening small, so that the juice is finely filtered. If you wish to make something thicker, such as a jam, make the pulp opening a little wider. Slowly turn the sausage stuffer crank until no more juice comes out of the machine.

Tips & Warnings

• Experiment with different fruits to create your own flavor smoothies.

• The remaining fruit pulp can be used as compost.

• Always ensure the machine is fully cleaned of any raw meat before using -- failure to do so could result in bacteria contamination and food poisoning.

References

• Recipe Curio: Fruit Jelly Press
• "The Entereprising Housekeeper; Helen Louise Johnson; 1906"
• Linda Anderson: Organic Farmer; Berkshire, England
• Recipe Curio: Fruit Press Instructions

Resources

• Weekend Brewer: Wine Making Fruit Press Tutorial
• Happy Juicer: Fruit Juicing Recipes