Sausage Balls
Ingredients:
2 cup All Purpose Flour
1/4 cup Butter, cut in pieces
1/2 tsp Cream of Tartar
1/2 tsp Salt
1/4 tsp Baking Soda
1/4 cup Dry Nonfat Milk
1 lb bulk Hot Pork Sausage
3 cup Extra Sharp Cheddar, shredded
Directions:
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- In a food processor, combine dry ingredients.
- Slowly add the Butter, pulsing as each piece enters to fully incorporate into the dry ingredients.
- In a large bowl, break down the sausage with your hands.
- Slowly add the Cheese and Flour mixture, alternating between the two. Dough should be slightly crumbly.
- Grease a large cookie sheet.
- Using your hands, make small balls (slightly smaller than golf balls) of the dough, rolling the dough in your palms; place on the cookie sheet.
- Bake for 18 to 20 minutes.
Makes about 2 dozen, depending on size.
NOTES: Any Southerner will recall this recipe. It is that simple brunch snack or holiday appetizer that everyone loves. I grew up in a trailer park in Georgia, and we had a holiday party at the local club house. I was the only child usually there, and there were many people in their sixties or so. There was always a bunch of these wonderful treats there.
Let’s talk sausage: Though pork sausage is easy to find, I really have to advocate for Jimmy Dean® hot sausage. This is the only traditional sausage I would use.
Now the above is a homemade version–a lot of people will just use Bisquick® baking mix, which is fine if you’re in a hurry, though the above recipe is all natural.
