One of the most important aspects of a sausage ... out of it while cooking. Historically, sausage casings have been made with a part of the intestines from animals such as sheep, goats, pigs ...

Let's go find out more. To make traditional Cumberland sausages, butchers would have originally used a local breed, the Cumberland pig, which is now extinct. So now they use rare breeds ...

The casing is traditionally made from animals’ intestines – sheeps’ intestines for small sausages such as chipolatas, pigs’ intestines and ox intestines for larger sausages. FAQs about BBC ...