Sausage Defined

Sausage means ground pork or a mixture of 1/3 ground pork and 2/3 any other kind of meat. Classic sausage is made of pork trimmings, 1/3 fat to 2/3 lean. Or of ground beef and pork mixed which is bologna, or of lamb, mutton, or goat bound with 1/3 pork to help hold it together and improve flavor. It can also be made of part liver which gives you liver sausage.

From Old Fashioned Recipe Book by Carla Emery.