Pork selts

Boiled-pressed seltz sausage is considered the national dish of German cuisine. The seltz sausage got its distinctive name thanks to the German word sülze. However, not only in Germany they like to feast on a potion of pork or chicken. In our latitudes, pork potions have been deservedly popular and in demand for several centuries in a row.

This is primarily due to the availability and relative ease of cooking pork potion. It is worth noting that pork potion, however, as well as chicken, refers to sausages that have long been made at home. Currently, pork potions can be easily found on the shelves of the vast majority of domestic grocery stores.

However, the store product does not always boast excellent taste, and besides, consumer characteristics. In addition, modern food manufacturers, including sausages, in most cases use various food additives for the manufacture of pork potion, which help to give the finished product a certain taste, color and aroma.

In addition, food additives help to maintain the taste and consumer characteristics of pork potion for a longer time. Domestic pork potions are possible and will not be stored for weeks. However, the quality, as well as the taste of the handmade sausage product, will give a hundred points ahead of even the most expensive mass-produced product. As a rule, the sausage of selts includes pork or beef, meat offal, for example, liver or tongue, as well as speck.

True connoisseurs of the product argue that it is best to use a pig's head as well as an animal's stomach to make pork potion. In order to cook pork potions independently and at home, the following ingredients will be needed: pork head and stomach, salt, black ground pepper, marjoram, as well as mustard and garlic.

First, the pig's head is treated and then boiled. Then meat is separated from bone together with skin and lard. The meat is finely chopped, garlic and spices are added, and then salted. The stomach is carefully scraped and washed and then grated with salt and mustard. Leave for a while until the stomach becomes soft, and then start with a meat mass.

Stuffed pork stomach is sutured with cotton threads, pierced to several places and placed on a baking sheet. Roast pork potions in an oven or oven until fully cooked. It is worth noting that, as a rule, in the process of making homemade pork potions, meat juice remains, which can be used to prepare a variety of dishes.