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Siskonmakkara is a mild, Finnish fresh sausage made of Rahola
/ref> The word ''siskon'' is a
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Siskonmakkara is a mild, Finnish fresh sausage made of pork
Pork is the culinary name for the meat of the pig (''Sus domesticus''). It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig animal husbandry, husbandry dating back to 8000–9000 BCE.
Pork is eaten both freshly cooke ...
, cooked before serving. The meat is soft and smooth-textured and usually squeezed from its casing when cooking. The most common dish using this sausage is siskonmakkara soup (''siskonmakkarakeitto'') in which they are cooked in, and simultaneously flavours, the soup stock. The sausage can also be used for a stroganoff or macaroni casserole
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in place of minced meat
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. It does not keep well and should be used on the day it is bought.
The word ''siskonmakkara'' is a partial loan translation
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from the Swedish compound word
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''siskonkorv'' (''korv'' meaning "sausage") whose ''siskon'' part had originally been ''susiskon'', derived from German
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''Sausischen'' and French ''saucisse'', both meaning "small sausage"./ref> The word ''siskon'' is a
homonym
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of the genitive form of the word ''sisko'' meaning "sister", as the word ''siskonmakkara'' appears to mean "sister’s sausage".
See also
*List of sausage dishes
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