Summer Sausage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 lb. lean ground meat
5 tsp. Tender Quick salt
6 tsp. hickory smoke salt
2 1/2 tsp. mustard seed
2 1/2 tsp. minced garlic
2 1/2 tsp. coarsely ground black pepper
whole black peppers (optional)

Preparation

Mix all ingredients except whole black peppers. (Do not use metal bowl!) Refrigerate 24 hours, then mix again. Shape into 5 loaves. Add black whole peppers at this time. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet (one that has sides) at 300\u00b0 for 15 minutes, then at 150\u00b0 for 8 hours, turning loaves after 4 hours.