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Prasky Pražská klobása (Prague Sausage)
Prasky is a smoked, fully cooked, ready to eat product (Czech-‐style summer sausage). It is made from pork and beef with salt, black pepper, ground caraway, garlic, paprika and cayenne pepper and marjoram. Prasky is a nickname for Pražská klobása (Prague Sausage). It was introduced to the US by Czech-‐American sausage makers who wanted to recreate the street sausage of their homeland. Our handmade Prasky is based on the recipe I was given over 30 years ago while apprenticing with Vaclav Sorejs, the last “old-‐world” Czech sausage maker in Cleveland, just before he retired. Vaclav unlocked his safe and gave me the hand-‐written recipe he had brought when he immigrated to the US in the early 1900’s. I have modified the recipe slightly (the original recipe was for 100 pounds of product (that is a LOT), including 40 pounds of “old bull meat” – kinda hard to find that at Kroger’s or Costco). In spite my minor modifications to his 100 year-‐old recipe, I think Vaclav would be proud that his old-‐world Prasky lives on. The traditional method of serving this fully cooked sausage is placing ¼”-‐thick slices on rye bread smeared with a little coarse-‐grained mustard, accompanied by a Pilsner Urquel beer. My dad also loved to fry up a slice of Prasky for a late night snack (he called it “Bohemian Filet Mignon”). It is awesome diced, fried and mixed with eggs for breakfast. Also great in any recipe calling for flavorful smoked sausage (gumbos, jambalaya etc.) BONUS: If you have a really good dog and are overly generous, any dog that has ever tasted our Prasky thinks it is “doggy crack”. There is nothing Sadie won’t do for a tiny morsel of this. Keep your Prasky refrigerated. We recommend consuming or freezing within a week or so, if it lasts that long. It freezes well -‐ if you aren’t sure how much you are going to eat, we suggest that you whack it in half, eat one half now, freeze the rest for later. Our label pays homage to the Good Solder Švejk, a novel by Jaroslav Hašek. It is the story of a Czech commoner, who gets drafted into the Austro-‐Hungarian Army to fight in WWI. He bumbles through misadventure after misadventure, destroying the Hapsburg Empire with his brilliantly executed incompetence. His passive resistance to authority has made him a hero to Czechs for generations.