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Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« on: December 07, 2010, 11:08:22 pm »
Polska Kielbaska  Please...the dang price has gone thru the roof and we love this stuff.

Cap? Nick? anyone got a tried and true recipe?
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2010, 11:31:39 pm »
It's good but HEB premium is better. Is HSF nationwide?
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2010, 11:52:58 pm »
It's good but HEB premium is better. Is HSF nationwide?
Not sure euge
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 12:35:53 am »
It must be if you're getting it too. And my bad. How would you even know what HEB premium is like?

Isn't the Polish Kielbasa usually pork with garlic? Anyway we eat the hell out of it down here. Call it Polish or "Country". And HSF rocks too...
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 05:43:51 am »
I could show you what to do. Its not terribly hard. You have  to cure the ground pork and beef. Then pack it into casings with just the right amount of fat and salt pepper and garlic, then cold smoke it.

I feel bad that they are raising the price of this crap kielbasa. All meat is going up because feed prices are going up.

Im very lucky the hood where I work is right next to Phillys Polish neighborhood. The best kielbasa in the world. I think their wedding kielbasa is about the same price as hillshire farms. 

If you want, let me know Ill pack up some Krakus market wedding Keilbasa and ship it out to you if you want. Ill stop by there this week and see how much it is.

In our house Kielbasa ans sauerkraut pay a big part of Christmas. We celebrate Christmas Slovakian style.

My wife absolutely loves the kielbasa. Its one of the reasons I married her.
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 05:52:19 am »
My wife absolutely loves the kielbasa. Its one of the reasons I married her.

 ::) ::) ::)

Cap can never stay on topic. I used to have a great place to get this kind of stuff, but I noticed the past few times that there's a significant texture change and much more fat. I believe if you get that sawdust texture, that's an overapplication of organ meat, and well, fat in the wrong proportions in a sausage just feels nasty.
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2010, 06:44:35 am »
Back when football season first started I was trying to replicate Johnsonville Brats. This site: http://thepauperedchef.com/2009/06/the-bratwurst-mystery.html got me pretty damn close. In the myriad of links he provides, you can find this one:

http://thespicysausage.com/sausagemakingrecipes.htm

which is pretty much my go-to for sausage recipes these days. They're pretty damn good. Here's the closest to kielbasa he has:

http://thespicysausage.com/recipes/polishsausage.htm

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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2010, 12:35:31 pm »

Say it with me: polish saaaaahsejj.



Ahhhh go Paaak yer Caaah  :o
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 04:45:16 am »
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Im very lucky the hood where I work is right next to Phillys Polish neighborhood. The best kielbasa in the world. I think their wedding kielbasa is about the same price as hillshire farms.  
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Swiacki's?
It's the only kielbasa we eat.
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2010, 06:09:48 am »

Say it with me: polish saaaaahsejj.



Ahhhh go Paaak yer Caaah  :o

Fail! Wrong state! Surely you've herd of da searsss tower my frend?
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 09:04:33 am »

Say it with me: polish saaaaahsejj.



Ahhhh go Paaak yer Caaah  :o

Fail! Wrong state! Surely you've herd of da searsss tower my frend?


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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 09:16:19 am »
Geez...I can't see quite how you'd make that particular mistake, but I can see that he almost coulda been from Mill-Waaaauhkee.

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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2010, 09:21:44 am »
Geez...I can't see quite how you'd make that particular mistake, but I can see that he almost coulda been from Mill-Waaaauhkee.

That's even worse! Milwaukee is in da same state as da Packers!
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2010, 09:25:24 am »
Well Ahm from Whyomin...never been back east cept once to Savanah Georgia...
they still say y'all there...  ;D
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Re: Help me clone Hillshire Farms
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2010, 08:14:46 pm »
My wife absolutely loves the kielbasa. Its one of the reasons I married her.

 ::) ::) ::)

Cap can never stay on topic. I used to have a great place to get this kind of stuff, but I noticed the past few times that there's a significant texture change and much more fat. I believe if you get that sawdust texture, that's an overapplication of organ meat, and well, fat in the wrong proportions in a sausage just feels nasty.

 ;D ;D ;D

...And then the thread degenerated.
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