Smoked Ukrainian (Kovbaca)

This sausage is made from a 100 year old recipe that Wasyl Kramarczuk and his family used in the "old country" - for the sausage purist. Ukrainian style “Kovbasa” is traditionally placed in Ukrainian Easter baskets for blessing, but it is also delicious anytime. A coarse ground pork sausage seasoned with black pepper and fresh ground cloves of garlic then smoked with real hickory wood.  INGREDIENTS: pork, water, and less than 2% of: salt, fresh garlic, sugar, spices, sodium nitrite, sodium erythorbate.  Pork in a natural hog casing. Contains nitrate. Does not contain MSG. Fully cooked (smoked), ready to eat cold or hot. One order includes one ring (about 1.25 pounds total). Keep refrigerated. Best when consumed within 14 days.  May be frozen.