saveloy

ˈsævəlɔɪ

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(chiefly, Australia, Britain, New Zealand) A seasoned and smoked pork sausage, normally purchased ready-cooked.

Savoloys. TAKE ſix pounds of young pork, free it from bone and ſkin, and ſalt it with one ounce of ſalt-petre, and a pound of common ſalt, for two days; [...]

Origin: From a of cervelat or (perhaps influenced by Savoy), both from , from (compare , cervello, probably from the fact that the sausage was originally made from pork brains), from Old Milanese , from , from cerebrum (from , ultimately from ) + -ellum. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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