Hot Link Sausage History

Series Summary

Sausages are among the oldest of prepared foods. This outcome of efficient butchery is thought to have originated in 3000 B.C. by the Sumerians. Since the sausage's creation, civilizations all over the globe have come to love this tasty staple. One of the most intriguing characteristics of sausages is their diversity of flavor. Each culture has uniquely combined seasoning, vegetables, and herbs to give the sausage a mark of distinction. This ability of the sausage to manifest a variety of flavors has digested itself into the hearts of people worldwide.

In this free video series, learn how to make homemade hot link sausage. Karl James walks you through the step-by-step process of cutting, seasoning, and stuffing your own sausages. You will learn how to operate a meat grinder, and how to tie off sausages after they have been stuffed. He even shows you how to smoke your sausages over a grill. With this spicy sausage recipe, you will be sure to impress. So, start learning how to make homemade hot link sausages today!

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Karl James owner of Creolesoul catering located in Round Rock, Texas and on behalf of Expert Village I'm here to show you how to make hot links. Okay hot links that is what we are going to make today from scratch. A lot of work but the pay off is great any way the hot link is basically sausage, it is highly spiced, we use a lot of cumin to give it that flavor, plus a lot of pepper to add heat to it. There is many different kind of sausage, sausage basically takes meat cut up and you use casing we are going to use hog casing, they got synthetic casing that they make today that you can stuff you stuffing into. I mean you can actually make any kind of sausage that you like. Sausage is known for one of the most are the oldest of the prepare that goes back to 1000 B.C. and then back in the roman empire during Nero there where big festivals and sausage where really connected highly connected to those festivals and then the early Catholic church stopped the festival and consider eating sausage a sin. So by the time Empire Constantin came into power in Rome he ban sausage altogether because of the ruling of the Catholic church. Anyway you can find sausage all over the world different kinds, made different ways, you have your raw sausage, you have your cook sausage tons and tons ways to do it. But like I said we are going to do a hot link."