My maternal grandparents used to raise hogs. Each year they butCher them. They sold a lot of the meat but they would cure country hams, make fat back meat food eating and seasoning of things like pinto beans and cabbage. My grandma would use lard to make biscuits. I have never ate a biscuit as good as she made. She didn't leave a recipe so no one in the family can duplicate them. To be honest I don't think she had a recipe, she did made them by memory. What I wanted to point out is they did not have freezers but they made country sausage. They actually canned a good portion of it the way you would can beans, other vegetables and fruits in Mason jars. I never did eat any of the canned sausage but saw my grandma and aunts eat it often.OFC