How to Make Pickled Beef Sausages Like Penrose

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Old Penrose Sausage Clone????

• Thread in 'Sausage' Thread starter Started by pugsbrew,
• Start date Feb 7, 2017

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I think it was Penrose that had the outstanding hot pickled small sausages when I was a kid.  Now you can only find weiners in a hot vinegar mix.

Anyone have a recipe, or way to get to the old style hot sausages????

Man I miss those.

Thanks

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I actually put a jar one together yesterday seems to be petty close have to wait about 5 more days and see

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Mmmm pickled sausage... I don't see those around up here anymore either. Last 1 I had was lets say less than sub par. Be interesting to see what you come up with...

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My apologies to the original poster of this recipe , but I never made note of who I stole it from.
I was just thinking of trying this again soon. I never had the original Penrose product but these are pretty good.

Penrose Hot Sausage Recipe.
Vs 3.0

This recipe is about as close as I've come so far.
Penrose (later bought by ConAgra Foods) mixed the spices into the sausage before cooking and pickling. So, in order to achieve the desired level of spicy goodness the brine needs to be VERY spicy!

This recipe makes a one quart jar of pickled sausage. Scale up or down as desired.

__- 1/2 cup water
__- 2 cups white vinegar
__- 1/2 tbs Ground Cayenne Pepper
__- 1 tbs red pepper flakes
__- 1 tsp minced Garlic.
__- 1 tbs dried minced onion
__- 1 tsp Paprika
__- 1/2 tsp white pepper
__- 1 tbs salt
__- Lg pinch all spice
__- 28 oz pkg Hillshire Farms 'lil Smokies, or other precooked link sausage, cut in two. (

MUST be precooked !) Kielbasa sliced about 1/2 inch thick works also. Hot dogs just don't work.
__- Or, use to pickle Boiled Eggs!

Directions

1* On medium-high heat, combine the water, salt, vinegar, and spices.
2* Bring the mixture to a boil. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes in a well ventilated area.
NOTE: when you're simmering the brine, make sure you have a ventilator fan running or a window and door open, the vinegar and Cayenne pepper boiling is kinda' hard on a the eyes! Almost like mace...
3* Place precooked sausage into a 1 qt sterile jar. Fill jar but don't pack tightly.
4* Pour the hot vinegar mixture in with the sausage, If there isn't enough, add some vinegar. Secure the lid.
5* Let cool, then place in the 'frige. keep Refrigerated after opening.
6* Ready to eat in 5 to 7 days.

When opened for the first time, there will be a layer of fat on top and the underside of the lid, remove if you want too.

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Recipe looks great, similar to what I've used in the past. I disagree though, Hot Dogs work just fine.

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Wow does this bring back some memories. The last I seen was in single packages and not a jar.

Warren

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I just made 3 pint jars of this sausage. I will find out in about two weeks how it is. Thanks for posting this

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Watching. I do miss these little guys.

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they are really really good, I could not stay out of them for 2 weeks!!!
I did a quart with hot dogs also, not bad but smokies were better IMO

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ohhh WE gonna be trying this recipe..As a kid I could knock out a smaller jar of the Penrose sausage..easy.

Like a lot of things thought they would always be available,,,this recipe gets close I will be very happy.

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Thanks for the recipe. I'll get on it when I get a few extra minutes.

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Gearing up to do this today. They should look sexy next to the pickled eggs I have made.

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ohhh WE gonna be trying this recipe..As a kid I could knock out a smaller jar of the Penrose sausage..easy.

Like a lot of things thought they would always be available,,,this recipe gets close I will be very happy.

oh they are close, I like being able to adjust heat level

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This is going to be a loooong two weeks. The only thing I did differently was that I didn't cut the lil smokies in half.

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Looking good they say good things come to those who wait. When do you want my address?

Warren

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Looking good they say good things come to those who wait. When do you want my address?

Warren

Ha! You want some eggs to? My wife is dreading when I break into the eggs, sausage, and smoked cheese.

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Why not pickle eggs are good.

Oh boy eggs and beer. oops wife better run.

Warren

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Thanks for the like SteveH

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Four days later I had to try one. They are very good. Still need more time before they are done. But the flavor is there I believe.

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