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n. Sausage cured to the extent that it requires no refrigeration.
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Summer sausage is any sausage that can be kept without refrigeration. Summer sausage is usually a mixture of pork and other meat such as beef or venison. Summer sausage can be dried or smoked, and while curing ingredients vary significantly, curing salt is almost always used. Seasonings may include mustard seeds, black pepper, garlic salt, or sugar.
Summer sausage, like many sausages, uses leftover scrap meat and organ meat that would otherwise be wasted. However some brands of summer sausage do not use scrap meats.
Traditionally, summer sausage is a fermented sausage with a low pH to slow bacterial growth and give a longer shelf life, causing a tangy taste. The distinctive taste can be copied using citric acid as a shortcut to keeping cultures to ferment the following batch.
In Spain, summer sausages include salchichón, chorizo, and other types of embutido.
Usage examples of "summer sausage".
He has salami, liver sausage, polish sausage, and usually odd lunchmeat such as bologna or summer sausage.
If they were both drinking cider and eating summer sausage, which I hope you will agree they both might do, and each dropped his piece of sausage between the cushions of his chair, both would fish for it among the trash.
He lowers the bottle and takes a big summer sausage from the other sack and begins to chew the plastic wrapping away.
My point hit bone and cut downward through flesh harder than summer sausage.
He finished this speech by thrusting a basket at Shadow, filled high with local cheeses, bottles, jars, and several small salamis that proclaimed themselves to be venison summer sausage, and by coming inside.
While Macurdy and Melody stacked a new fire, Tossi brought out a huge summer sausage, along with some potatoes that weren't too badly sprouted.
I felt my tongue swelling rapidly to roughly the size of a summer sausage.
There was half a summer sausage and some cheddar cheese in the bottom drawer, and a couple of apples.
They shoved George up the stairs and gave him two sandwiches stuffed with what tasted like summer sausage.