Summer Sausage - cooking recipe

Ingredients

5 lb. ground meat (cheap)
1/4 c. Morton Tender Quick salt
3 to 4 Tbsp. liquid smoke
1 tsp. coarse black pepper
1 Tbsp. red pepper flakes
1 Tbsp. mustard seed

Preparation

Mix seasonings an meat until \"mushy.\"
Cover and refrigerate 24 hours.
Remove from refrigerator and shape meat mixture into 4 loaves approximately 2 1/2 inches in diameter and 9 inches long. Be sure to compress the loaves to get all the air out.
Bake in roaster pan on drip rack for 4 hours at 225\u00b0.
After 2 hours, turn loaves over.
Let cool.
Wrap in foil and refrigerate.