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Directions:Bring two stock pots of water to boil. Use a traditional meat grinder. Put ground beef and ground pork through the meat grinder. This should equal 6 cups of meat. Peel potatoes and onions. Put potato and onions through the grinder. This should equal 12 cups of potatoes and onions. The Martinson rule is "Twice as much pork as beef, and twice as much potatoes and onions as meat". Mix everything together in a large turkey roasting pan. Measure out 1/4 to 1/2 cup of whole allspice into a plastic bag. Use a hammer to crush the allspice. Measure out 3 tablespoons of crushed allspice and add to the meat mixture. Add about 2 tablespoons of salt. Mix together with your hands. Rinse pork casings by hooking the end to the faucet and flush with water. Use a horn to place one end of casing on and then stuff the horn with meat, filling about 1/2 full with sausage mixture until 2-3 feet long. Place links into the heated water that has been seasoned with salt and all spice. Use a hatpin to poke holes into the lengths of sausage about every 2-3 inches. Simmer for 30 minutes after water comes to a boil. Store in a cool place. When ready to eat, bake sausage on a cookie sheet that has been prepared with vegetable oil cooking spray. Spray a little on the sausage too. Bake for at least 45 minutes until golden brown. |
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Notes: For the last 20+ years, Buster and family have been celebrating Christmas Eve up-north at the cabin in Laporte, Minnesota. We get out the white, lace tablecloth, decorate the room with pine boughs, and complete it all with little white Swedish candles at each place setting on the table that are mounted in red, enamel painted blocks of wood. We decorate the Christmas Tree with lights and ornaments and put "the monkey" in the pine boughs, the only decoration that Buster really cares about that is from his parent's home. The Christmas Eve menu start with hors d'oeuvres at about 3:00 p.m.: shrimp, chicken wings, escargot, pickled herring, smoked whitefish, cheese ball, and chex mix. Followed by potato sausage, raspberry jello with whipped cream, cranberry relish, and dinner rolls with butter. Peppakager and other cookies are for desert. Presents are opened at 7:00. Santa comes at night and if the kids are good, he leaves presents for them and fills their Christmas Stockings. The rule is that as long as you believe in Santa Claus and are good, he will come. All of Buster's children and grandchildren know that Santa will be coming because they still believe.
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