Re: [london.food] Steaming Sausages over Beer

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From: Scott Plimpton
Subject: Re: [london.food] Steaming Sausages over Beer
Date: 11:32 on 16 Sep 2006
Don't boil them whatever you do.  They need to be very slowly simmered for up to ten minutes.  Any contcat with boiling water and they'll split.  When you eat them, you peel the skin off and eat the inside.  Serve with pretzel (bretzi) and sweet mustard.  The best Bavarian one is [1]Handlmaier's.

I'll be downing some next weekend at Octoberfest.

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From: [2]"Rev Simon Rumble" <simon@xxxxxx.xxx>
To: [3]london.food@xxxxxxxxxx.xxx
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:25:20 +0100
Subject: Re: [london.food] Steaming Sausages over Beer
This one time, at band camp, John Costello wrote:
> > Anybody have any experience of steaming sausages? Any tips or tricks?
>
> No, but I do have some experience with making sauces.
I believe Weisswurst are traditionally boiled, not steamed.  Served with
wheat beer:
[4]en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisswurst
(In that article, you've gotta love a culture with a concept of a
"second breakfast".  Then again, Bavaria has clothing specifically
designed to cover up a beer and sausage gut.)
> For the sausages, I'm undecided between puncturing them with a fork so
> they don't explode (but getting a drained sausage) and risking letting
> them explode from boiling juices.  One or two punctures might be okay.
Weisswurst most certainly should NOT be punctured.  It'll end up
waterlogged and ooze all over the place.  They're nothing like as fatty
as English bangers.
> At a guess, I'd say 10-15 minutes boiling time.  Add a "sacrifice" sausage
> to use for checking.
Wikipedia piece says 10 minutes.
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