Place meat in large bowl. Add dry spices to meat. Grab about 3 ounces meat and form into the size of a tennis ball. Transfer from hand to hand in a slapping motion until flattened. Place on wax paper.

SAUSAGE IS a specialty for Stefano Diaz, owner of the Meat Wagon in Kingston, N.Y. His links and patties have earned him a fervent local following that is, in fact, interested in seeing how the ...

Dear Heloise: My husband loves sausage with his eggs, so I make sausage patties by hand. It's cheaper to make my own patties than to buy pre-sliced. I always hated when the fat in the sausage stuck to ...