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 ...

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 ...

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 ...