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Salchichón is a Spanish
page 218 Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski 2009 It is made with pork, although some recipes use other meats including ox, veal or horse.
Salchichón is a Spanish summer sausage
Summer sausage is an American term for any sausage that can be kept without refrigeration until opened. Summer sausage is usually a mixture of pork, but may be made of or contain other meats such as beef or venison. Summer sausage is fermented, ...
that is made by smoking, drying, cooking or some combination.The Art of Making Fermented Sausagespage 218 Stanley Marianski, Adam Marianski 2009 It is made with pork, although some recipes use other meats including ox, veal or horse.
Preparation
The meat and fat are chopped in thin bits, seasoned with salt, pepper,nutmeg
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, oregano
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, and garlic and then inserted in thick natural pork intestines. Curing can be done for up to three months.
Regional variations
InPuerto Rico
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, salchichón is a smoked summer sausage similar in some ways to Genoa salami, an unsmoked Italian dry sausage. The salami is made of beef liver, heart, tripe, and pork fat and meat. It is often seasoned with salt, vinegar, whole black peppercorns and smoked paprika.
See also
*Saucisson
Saucisson () or saucisson sec is a family of thick, dry-cured sausages in French cuisine. Typically made of pork, or a mixture of pork and other meats, saucisson are a type of charcuterie similar to salami or summer sausage.
Origin
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, a similar sausage from France
References
Further reading
* Spanish Wikipedia Salchichón article, has much more detail {{DEFAULTSORT:Salchichon Spanish sausages Puerto Rican cuisine