Daming Wubaiju Sausage

Daming Wubaiju Sausage

　　Produced in Daming, Hebei.

It is primarily made from fresh pork thigh, rib, buttock, and loin meat, mostly lean; the casing is thoroughly washed and cleaned pig intestine. Ingredients include shiluozi, cardamom, flavoring essence, refined salt, sugar, pure sorghum liquor, and aged soy sauce. The meat is first cleaned to remove blood, then diced and mixed with various seasonings and spices, stirred evenly, and left to marinate for about three hours until the flavors penetrate the meat before being stuffed into casings. Every approximately 14 centimeters, the sausage is tied with hemp twine, stuffed and tied alternately until the entire casing is filled, then dried at a constant temperature to finish. The finished product has a pure color, plump and evenly thick sausages, with an appropriate balance of fat and lean, a rich aroma, a blend of sweet and salty, soft and smooth texture, not greasy when eaten, and has a long shelf life.