Fat

Just a small amount of the fat that will be divided up among the families to take home and render for cooking, etc.

Meat!

This will soon be turned into sausages and head cheese.

More finished product-Tlacenka

Also known as “head cheese”, but actally contains meat from better parts of the animal. Awesome stuff, but my arms and fingers are burned to s&@t from having boiling broth and meat chunks dropped on me while holding these casings during the filling process.

Just some of the final product

The waste

Hard to find.

The chickens are enjoying some of the scraps

The first batch goes out

Now they get cooked. See the nice little wood toothpicks on the ends?

Sausage Ingredients

Yes, that is the blood we drained and kept mixing (to prevent coagulation, and mixed with some breadcrumbs I think) back at the beginning, along with chopped meat from a variety of body parts mixed with nothing other than a few herbs & spices.

More sausage!

This is what is called “ladies” work.

Stitch up the casings

Remember those wooden sticks I was shaving to a point in the morning? Now they’re being used to close one end of intestine before we fill them, then to close the other end.