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The Mystery of Polish Sausage - What is Kielbasa?

Without a doubt the word Kielbasa haschanging ingredients, you create your own
worldwide recognition, yet it is also oftenrecipe and you may as well come up with your
misunderstood. Kielbasa is the general Polishown  name.
name for sausage. You cannot walk into a
Polish store and say: please give me a pound1. For centuries Polish Smoked Sausage was
of kielbasa. The sales lady, surrounded by 50made of pork, salt, pepper, garlic and
different kinds of kielbasa, will inevitablymarjoram (optional). Then in 1964 the Polish
reply: yes, but which one? There are wellGovernment introduced a second version of the
over 100 types of kielbasa, and the wordsausage that was made of 80% pork and 20%
itself is meaningless unless followed up withbeef. All other ingredients: salt, pepper,
the proper name: Kielbasa Rzeszowska,sugar, garlic, and marjoram remain the same
Kielbasa Krakowska, Kielbasa Tuchowska,in both recipes. The marjoram is optional but
Kielbasa Mysliwska, etc. It is like goingthe  garlic  is  a  must.
into a deli and asking for some cheese. Sure,
but which one: American, Provolone, Swiss,2. The meat is cured before it is mixed with
Gorgonzola, Gouda, Muenster - you have tospices. In the US Cure #1 (sodium nitrite
provide some details. There is no specificplus salt) is used, in Europe Peklosol
sausage called kielbasa but there are many(sodium  nitrite  plus  salt)  is  common.
sausages that carry the word kielbasa as part
of  the  name.3. The sausage is stuffed into a large hog
casing: 36 - 38 mm and formed into 12" (35
We know of only one sausage that carries thecm)  links.
word "Polish" in its name and that is the
Polish Smoked Sausage (Polska Kielbasa4. The traditional way was to cold smoke it
Wedzona). This is probably what the firstfor 1 to 1.5 days (it had to last for long
immigrants brought with them to America. Thetime).
problem we face here is that you can find
Polish Smoked Sausage in almost every5.  In  most  cases  it  is  hot smoked today
supermarket in the US, and no two are made
the same way. Yet Polish Smoked Sausage hasA little test was performed to see how large
been well defined for centuries and everybodyAmerican manufacturers make Polish Sausage.
in Poland knows what goes inside. We do notFour sausages called Polish Kielbasa or
intend to become judges in this matter, butPolish Sausage were bought at the local
instead rely on Polish Government Standardssupermarket in Florida and each of them was
for Polish Smoked Sausage. These rules haveproduced by a large and well known meat
remained  unchanged  for  the  last 60 years.plant. The number of ingredients and
chemicals used varied from 10 to 20 and
Before we anger many people who have beendifferent combinations of meats were used:
making Polish Smoked Sausage in their own waypork-beef-turkey, beef only, pork-beef.
for years, let's clarify something further.Except the name, none of the sausages had
It's perfectly fine to add an ingredient thatanything  to  do  with  the  original.
you or your children like into your sausage.
You still have the full right to say that youIt seems that for the manufacturers any
made a better sausage than the famous Polishsausage that is smoked (or have liquid smoke
Smoked Sausage. You may say that youradded) and stuffed into a 36 mm one foot long
grandfather who came from Poland made thecasing can be called Polish Smoked Sausage or
best Polish sausage in the world and we honorPolish Kielbasa. It becomes quite clear that
that. Maybe he used chicken stock instead ofmanufacturers put any ingredients they like
water or maybe he added something else. Whatinside of the casing and the name Polish
we are trying to say is that he was makingKielbasa is used just for credibility and to
his own version of the known classic or somegain  the  trust  of  the  consumer.
other Polish sausage and it could have tasted
better for you and your family. We do notThe problem is futher magnified by various
dispute that fact. You can of course addsites on the Internet that provide countless
anything you like to your sausage, but itrecipes for making Polish sausages. Yet the
will no longer be the original Polish Smokedmysterious Polish Smoked Sausage is
Sausage (Polska Kielbasa Wedzona) or anyembarrassingly simple to make and all it
other brand named sausage. Once you startneeds is pork, salt, pepper and garlic.



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