Bologna sausage

Lyon or meat sausage is cooked sausage without a deposit. The recipe originally came from the French city of Lyon - there it is called Cervelas.

It is produced from salt pork mixed with beef, and back bacon, seasoned and a mild depending on the recipe with white pepper, cardamom, turmeric, nutmeg, coriander, garlic, ginger. The ingredients are coarsely or finely depending on the variety gekuttert with ice, filled in beef or artificial casings, scalded and slightly hot smoked. Filling in Rindsdärme today plays a rather minor role, as the Rindsdärme come only as an import commodity ( eg Argentina ) in question. From slaughtered in Europe cattle intestines may not be used in food production since the beginning of the BSE crisis.

Lyons is eaten cold or hot. A typical dish is Cervelas chaud à la Beaujolaise, coarse Lyon, which is braised in shallots in red Beaujolais in the oven. It is served with boiled potatoes or lentils.

Fine Lyons was, for example, in Switzerland, popular beyond France; as " Saarland Lyon " it is considered a regional specialty, besides being in the other regions of Germany and in Austria known, usually with a different recipe and under different names such as " sausage ", "City Sausage " (Nuremberg), " Cooked " (Bremen) or "extra sausage " or " Paris " ( Austria ). Regional reversed a meat sausage with insert, comparable to the mortadella, as " Lyon " are offered.

In the German-speaking countries Lyon is usually eaten cold as cold cuts or as a sausage salad. In addition, it is also used for meat salad. In Hesse, it is often eaten hot with mustard. In the Palatinate and neighboring regions it belongs to Weck, Worscht un Woi.

We distinguish the different qualities for food contact according to their BEFFE content ( bindegewebsfreies protein in meat protein ), the measure of the amount of sheer muscle meat and thus:

• Pork sausage ( simple)
• Pork sausage (extra)
• Lyon ( BEFFE: at least 8%, BEFFE in meat protein histometrically not less than 65 vol - % & chemically not less than 75% ) guideline no. 2.222.1

In the United States, the trade name or Bologna Bologna ring as well as the colloquial name Baloney is common. Baloney is in addition also a slang word for "nonsense." In other English-speaking countries the term Polony is in use.