After a few near misses on the Italian sausage recipes, I decided to go another direction and just find a sausage with things I like in it.  This is what I found.

Onion Sausage

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Ingredients  

• 7 lbs ground pork
• 2 ½ oz salt
• 4 oz finely chopped onions
• 1 Tbsp coarse black pepper
• 1 Tbsp ground marjoram
• 12 oz cold beer
• 4 Tbsp liquid smoke

Steps 

1. Combine all ingredients, mix well. Divide into 1-pound portions, vacuum pack, label and freeze.