Sichuanese sausage making has always been a family ... the links are beginning to firm up and transform slowly into the lap ...

For the Chinese sausage, you can use either plain (lap cheong) or liver sausage (yuen cheong), or both. The meat makes this a strongly flavoured dish, so it is best eaten with steamed rice.

It is my mother’s bread stuffing recipe, but while she uses bacon, I now make it with Chinese sausage (lap cheong) and liver sausage (yuen cheong) – a suggestion by food stylist Nellie Ming Lee.