Cooking Techniques
Can You Make Venison Sausage Without Fat?
With the 2016 season behind us, it’s time to knock out some offseason chores. Since I began hunting a decade ago, a staple of my Februarys has always been making deer sausage with my family. It’s an incredibly satisfying day, turning a freezer of roasts into a freezer of sausage, but one thing about the process has always irked me – the heavy reliance on pork fat.
It’s no secret that venison on its own is super lean. To compensate, most butchers...