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The History of Sausage
The History of Sausage
The History of Sausage
The food economy and preservation methods have always been a big
f a c t o r f o r s u r v i v a l of man and undoubtably t h e use of o f f a l and t h e
drying of meat in some form was practiced by e a r l y man. Samples of
meat, including a m t t o n j o i n t were uncovered i n a tomb i n ancient
J e r i c h o . Clay t a b l e t s from Babylon give some fragmentary information
about chopped meat i n a g o a t ' s stomach (possibly a type of Haggis).
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D r E . N . Horsford i n h i s r e p o r t on t h e A r q Ration of 1864 gives
an i n t e r e s t i n g account of sausage as a means of improving t h e Use of
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beef f o r feeding the Army. H e had spent s e v e r a l years i n Liebigs
Laboratory in Germany and on r e t u r n i n g t o t h e U.S w a s appointed a
professor a t Harvard with t h e s p e c i f i c assignment of t h e Application
of Science t o t h e Useful Arts i n 1847. I n h i s r e p o r t t o t h e U.S. Army
he mentioned that t h e Germans were q u i t e s k i l l e d i n sausage preparation
and u t i l i z e d a l l of t h e edible components of t h e animal. He l i s t e d t h e
necessary equipment f o r sausage manufacture and suggested means of
m k i n g c l o t h casings coated with g e l a t i n when other sources were not
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a v a i l a b l e . Sausage up t o 1864 was not a part of t h e A r q y r a t i o n .
However, many references t o sausages being supplied by s e t t l e r s
i n d i c a t e that t h e product w a s a popular item f o r supplementing t h e
r a t i o n s a t Army camps and p o s t s .
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Larry Borchert: D r Robert W. Bray is our f i n a l speaker
Associate Dean and DFrector of the University of Wisconsin Experiment
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S t a t i o n . He took h i s B.S. and Ph.D. a t Wisconsin and h i s Masters a t
Kansas S t a t e .