Simple Sausages with Apple Sauce

Name: Simple Sausages with Apple Sauce
Yield: Serves Four
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon sherry; 20 g/¾ oz flour; 2 dessert apples, peeled and sliced; 1 small onion, chopped; 50 g/2 oz butter; butter for frying; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ teaspoon rubbed sage; 1 egg; 100 g/4 oz fresh white breadcrumbs; 450 g/1 lb minced belly of pork; 150 ml/¼ pint chicken or veal stock; 150 ml/¼ pint chicken or veal stock; ½ teaspoon French mustard; 2 tablespoons double cream

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cooking for Friends

By Prue Leith

Published 1978

About

Of course good bought sausages can be used for this recipe but they’re becoming more and more difficult to find, most of them tasting of nothing but preservative. And making your own sausages is as easy as winking, especially if you are prepared to dispense with the sausage casing. I find them better without skins anyway.

Ingredients

450 g/1 lb minced belly of pork
100 g/4

Main course

Method

To make the sausages, simply combine all the sausage ingredients and season very well. Form into sausage shapes using floured hands to stop the mixture sticking. Fry the sausages in butter in a heavy frying pan, turning them frequently to brown evenly all over. When they are cooked remove them to a plate and keep warm.

In the same pan as you fried the sausages melt the butter and add th