Has anyone actually made erbswurst?

[ONE]

Not from the late lamented Knorr tablets, but from scratch? I did a quick search, but a prolific user who likes the stuff enough to have it as his username is skewing the results a bit!

Long story short, I've fancied trying it for a while. I order a freezer load from a local butcher every so often and I was a few quid short on free delivery so I topped it up with some pork back fat with the intention of making myself some.

Plenty of recipes online I know, but I'm curious if anyone's actually made and used some successfully.

 

[Herman30]

Make a thick (thick like porridge) pea soup and dehydrate it. After it is dry crush it into a powder.
This is a common dehydrated food for hikers (who dehydrate their own food) in Finland.

If you don´t have dehydrator then use the oven in your kitchen.
Cover the oven pan with parchment paper and a thin layer of pea soup.
Dry in 50 degrees celsius with oven door slightly open until dry. Will take many, many hours. Perhaps over night.

 

[Toddy]

I never thought about doing that with the peas.

Here we have peasemeal, and I though it was using that.
Basically it's roasted (so they're cooked) dried yellow split peas, and those are then ground to make the peasemeal. Just add hot water or milk or stock and it makes a thick pudding like consistency.

 

[ONE]

So... I did it today. And everything went remarkably well up to point. The point being when I tried to get smart about it. One recipe from an American source suggested making up the pea flour and bacon goo and pressing it into tealight cups to make 'pucks', then wrapping those in greaseproof paper. This I did, but instead of tealight cups I used peda (a Neplai confection made from milk) moulds. And now they're all stuck, I did flour the moulds BTW. Have taste tested it, not bad, would go heavier on the herbs if I do it again. I'll also just roll it into paper, on reflection it would have been so easy to do that. I'll probably end up breaking this batch down and vacuum sealing it in Crusader cupful size packets.

 

[ONE]

Acting on a hunch I popped the lot into a bain-marie with a wee bit more rendered fat and another spoon or two of pea flour, my pea sausage is now in sausages!