Lyons
Lyoner or meat sausage is a scalded sausage without an insert. The recipe originally comes from the French city of Lyon - there it is called Cervelas .
It is made from cured pork , also mixed with beef , and back bacon , depending on the recipe with white pepper , cardamom , turmeric , nutmeg , coriander , garlic , ginger and the like. a. mildly spiced. Depending on the type, the ingredients are chopped coarsely or finely with ice , stuffed into beef or artificial casings, scalded and lightly hot-smoked. The stuffing in beef intestines plays a subordinate role today, since the beef intestines are only considered as imported goods (e.g. from Argentina). Since the beginning of the BSE crisis, the intestines of cattle slaughtered in Europe are no longer allowed to be used in food production.
Lyoner is eaten cold or hot. A typical dish is Cervelas chaud à la Beaujolaise , coarse Lyon that in the furnace to shallots in red Beaujolais is braised. It is served with jacket potatoes or lentils .
Fine Lyoner was also known beyond France. B. popular in Switzerland ; as " Saarland or Saarland Lyoner" (either feminine or masculine) it is considered a regional specialty. Conversely, a meat sausage with a filler, comparable to mortadella , is offered regionally as "Lyoner".
In German-speaking countries, Lyoner is usually eaten cold as cold cuts or as a sausage salad . It is also used for meat salads . In the Palatinate , Rheinhessen and neighboring regions it belongs to Weck, Worscht and Woi .
In Germany, a distinction is made between the different qualities of food according to their BEFFE content (protein in meat protein free from connective tissue), the measure for the proportion of sheer muscle meat and thus:
- Meat sausage (simple)
- Meat sausage (extra)
- Lyoner (BEFFE: at least 8%, BEFFE in meat protein, histometrically not below 65% by volume & chemically not below 75%) Guideline no. 2.222.1
In the United States , the trade name Bologna or Ring Bologna and the colloquial name Baloney are common. Baloney is also a slang word for " nonsense ". In other English-speaking countries, the term Polony is also used .
