Help me out folks. I have 25 pounds of ground venison and pork fat to make into sausage. I want to make a basic breakfast sausage flavor, with salt, pepper, sage, cayenne, garlic powder and brown sugar. I have no idea how much of the various seasonings I need for 25 pounds of meat Anybody have a recipe or formula? Thanks in advance!

I never use a recipe for breakfast sausage making but rather I add what looks right to me, fry a tiny patty, taste it, and adjust as needed until it's where I want it. I can tell you it'll take a lot more sage and salt than you think. I'd start with 5 oz of ground sage in 25 lbs of meat. Garlic powder goes further than you'd think so eer on the light side of it. I prefer red pepper flakes to cayenne in mine too. Good luck to you, I bet it turns out great.

Thanks Jayme! If you lived closer we’d be buddies!

Any idea where you’d start as far as salt and pepper??? How much hot pepper flakes to 25 pounds?

There are a lot of good pre mixed breakfast sausage seasonings that are packaged for 25 pounds of sausage
I mix it then usually add extra sage because I like it with a lot.

Lol, glad to help buddy.

I like a lot of pepper, so I'd go with 1/3 cup, and probably add more later. I don't think it'd take less than 1/2 cup of salt (probably more) but you probably better start with half that, I tend to like salt too. Red pepper flakes aka crushed red pepper, kind of a "to taste" type thing but a whole 1.75 oz bottle would be where I'd start. 25lbs is a big batch and I really like to taste the seasonings. I'd add 4 cups or so of ice water to it too while mixing, I'm not sure why but I read it somewhere once and I like the consistency so I do it now.

…. Listen to ADC … he’s built like a man that’s sampled a lot of sausage over the years

Never trust a skinny chef!

Yep, AC Legg makes good seasonings for sausage.