Hello Tree Climber. Your recipe sounds a lot like mine. I had been making salami and summer sausage and after a whileI couldn't tell the diff between the two recipies so I combined them and came up with my special version.
I also make a smoked and dried hunter sausage, landjaeger, pepperoni, slim jims, kielbasa, calabrese, maple breakfast links, garlic farmer sausage, and hot Italian sausage, head cheese, liverwurst, peameal and slab bacon. Come the fall/early winter I am very busy grinding, stuffing, smoking, andhunting.