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A sausage consists of meat cut into pieces or ground, mixed with other ingredients, and filled into a casing. Ingredients may include a cheap starch filler such as breadcrumbs or grains, seasoning and flavourings such as spices, and sometimes others such as apple and leek. [9] The meat may be from any animal but is often pork, beef or veal, or ...
The word entered English directly from the Polish kiełbasa and Czech klobása, meaning "sausage".Both these forms can be derived from a Proto-Slavic *kъlbasa, which is also the source of Russian колбаса, Ukrainian ковбаса́, Croatian kobasa, etc.
The name is derived from the Afrikaans words boer (literally, a farmer) and wors ('sausage'). [1] According to South African government regulation, boerewors must contain at least 90 percent meat or fat from beef, pork, lamb or goat. [2] The other 10% is made up of spices and other ingredients. Not more than 30% of the meat content may be fat.
Chorizo sausage Saucisson Skilandis Sausages being smoked. This is a list of notable sausages.Sausage is a food and usually made from ground meat with a skin around it. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic.
The Italian sausage was initially known as lucanica, [3] a rustic pork sausage in ancient Roman cuisine, with the first evidence dating back to the 1st century BC, when the Roman historian Marcus Terentius Varro described stuffing spiced and salted meat into pig intestines, as follows: "They call lucanica a minced meat stuffed into a casing, because our soldiers learned how to prepare it."
The word is believed to be derived from Middle French cervelas or servelat, originating from Old Italian cervella ('pigs brains'), ultimately from the Latin cerebrus ('brain'). Its first known use in the English language in this meaning was 1784. [1] Cervellato is still the name of a sausage in Italy; it is longer and thinner than standard ...
In the U.S., the sausage is most often associated with Louisiana Cajun cuisine, where it is a coarse-grained smoked sausage made using pork, garlic, pepper, onions, wine, and seasonings. Once the casing is stuffed, the sausage is smoked again (double smoked). [4]
The word liverwurst is a partial calque of German Leberwurst (pronounced [ˈleːbɐˌvʊʁst] ⓘ) 'liver sausage', and 'liver sausage', a full calque. [1]A fourteenth century mention in Latin however uses the term "liverworsted": [2] "Hec fercula dari solent magna sulta, porrum, pulli, farti seu repleti, ferina apri, carnes piperis, XII tybie gesenghet, XII pulli in suffene seu sorbicio ...