Red-Hot Beef Sausage

These sausages are an ode to the famous Texas red hots. They are really rich, with a beautiful, full flavor and a lot of heat. These sausages should be hot-smoked until cooked through (to an internal temperature of 148°F/64°C). If you’re not equipped to hot-smoke, they are also fantastic poached or gently grilled. To make the sausages, you will need about 20 feet/6 meters of large or medium hog casings, which can be ordered by the hank (about 100 feet/30 meters) from a specialty butcher or