Savoie Smoked Sausages with Herbs

Les Pormonaises

Preparation info
  • Yields 2 sausages to serve

    8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

  • About

Also called Pormoniers, Pormonières, or in patois Pornejhes, these large sausages take their name from the meat they are made of, namely the lungs, or poumons in French. They are made with parts of the pig that are not always found in supermarkets, and you will have to go to an Italian butcher to locate them. I know ... you will look at the ingredients list and say whatever one says when one does not want to think about what one eats, but this is wholesome poor people’s