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A sausage is a food usually made from ground meat, often pork, beef or veal, along with salt, spices and breadcrumbs, with a skin around it. Typically, a sausage is formed in a casing traditionally made from intestine, but sometimes synthetic. Sausages that are sold uncooked are cooked in many ways, including pan-frying, broiling and barbecuing. Some sausages are cooked during processing and the casing may be removed after. Sausage making is a traditional food preservation technique. Sausages may be preserved by curing, drying (often in association with fermentation or culturing, which can contribute to preservation), smoking or freezing. There is a huge range of national and regional varieties of sausages, which differ by their flavouring or spicing ingredients, the meat(s) used in them and their manner of preparation. ==History== Sausage making is a logical outcome of efficient butchery. Traditionally, sausage makers would salt various tissues and organs such as scraps, organ meats, blood, and fat to help preserve them. They would then stuff them into tubular casings made from the cleaned intestines of the animal, producing the characteristic cylindrical shape. Hence, sausages, puddings, and salami are among the oldest of prepared foods, whether cooked and eaten immediately or dried to varying degrees. Early humans made the first sausages by stuffing roasted intestines into stomachs.〔 Eleonora Trojan, Julian Piotrowski, (''Tradycyjne wędzenie'' ) AA Publishing. 96 pages. ISBN 978-83-61060-30-7〕 The Greek poet Homer mentioned a kind of blood sausage in the ''Odyssey'', Epicharmus wrote a comedy titled ''The Sausage'', and Aristophanes' play ''The Knights'' is about a sausage-vendor who is elected leader. Evidence suggests that sausages were already popular both among the ancient Greeks and Romans, and most likely with the various tribes occupying the larger part of Europe.〔 The most famous sausage in ancient Italy was from Lucania (modern Basilicata) and was called ''lucanica'', a name which lives on in a variety of modern sausages in the Mediterranean. During the reign of the Roman emperor Nero, sausages were associated with the Lupercalia festival.〔 Early in the 10th century during the Byzantine Empire, Leo VI the Wise outlawed the production of blood sausages following cases of food poisoning.〔()〕 The word ''sausage'' is derived from Old French ''saussiche'', from the Latin word ''salsus'' meaning "salted". Pâté is a similar product made of cooked and minced meat. See also, terrine. A newly released publication by the WHO says processed meats used in some varieties of sausage cause cancer. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34615621 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sausage」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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