Siskonmakkara

Siskonmakkara is a mild,  made of, 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 or  in place of. It does not keep well and should be used on the day it is bought.

The word siskonmakkara is a partial from the   siskonkorv (korv meaning “sausage”) whose siskon part had originally been susiskon, derived from  Saucischen and  saucisse, both meaning "small sausage". The word siskon is a of the genetive form of the word sisko meaning "sister", as the word siskonmakkara appears to mean “sister’s sausage”.