Subject: RECIPE: Sausage balls
From: [email-masked] (Pat Caudill)
Date: 25 Mar 88 16:53:20 GMT
Newsgroups: alt.gourmand

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.RH MOD.RECIPES-SOURCE SAUSAGE-BALLS A "27 Sep 87" 1988
.RZ "SAUSAGE BALLS" "A spicy snack to be eaten with cocktail sauce"
I got this from my sister who got it from my mother. My mother has been
cooking it for a long time.
.IH "Serves 10\-12 as appetizer"
.IG "1 lb" "bulk hot sausage" "500 g"
.IG "3 cups" "biscuit mix" "400 g"
(e.g. "Bisquick")
.IG "1 lb" "sharp cheddar cheese," "500 g"
grated
.PH
.SK 1
Preheat the oven to
.TE 375 190 .
Grate the cheese.
.SK 2
Combine all the ingredients and knead until well mixed.
You may need to add a little beef broth to get it to stick together.
.SK 3
Shape into 
.AB "1-inch" "3-cm"
balls and place on a cookie sheet or broiler pan.
.SK 4
Bake at
.TE 375 190
for 25 minutes.
.NX
Don't put too many on a cookie sheet or the grease will fill it up
and run off into your oven.
These should be served with cocktail sauce. They are very rich.
They can be made ahead and frozen until your party, then warmed before
serving.
.PP
Cooks outside North America should remember that a biscuit is a scone.
If you don't have any biscuit mix, you can make some by cutting together 
.AB "2\(12 cups" "250 g"
of flour, 
.AB "4 tsp" "20 ml"
of baking powder, and 
.AB "\(12 cup" "150 g"
of vegetable shortening or butter.
.SH RATING
.I Difficulty:
easy.
.I Time:
15 minutes preperation, 30 minutes cooking and cooling.
.I Precision:
approximate measurement OK.
.WR
Pat Caudill
Software Productivity Technologies
Tektronix, Inc., Portland, Oregon, USA
[email-masked]