Homemade deer patties

September is deer shooting time, and my father is a passionate member of the local hunting team.
It has been five days, and they have already gotten five of their quota of 18. As my father is both a shooter and a land-owner with rights to the meat from his land, he get quite a share of meat each fall.
Last night they got the first part, and as he filet and divides, I collected the scraps to make minced meat for deer patties.
I think it's so great to be able to make great dinners of food otherwise thrown out, and it was also a great chance for us to test the grinder-attachment for the Kenwood kitchen machine.

With some left-over lard from earlier this summer, we made wonderful minced, and with that, great patties.

Starting point - about 600g of deer cuts and 150g lard with some pork on it.

This was the first time using the meat grinder function for the kitchen machine, so that was exciting!

We started with the coarsest setting, and feed everything through. 

Then we changed to medium, and by now it looked like a good and smooth dough.

Then I added some eggs and spices to make patties.

I always make a test-one to check if there is enough salt and spice. Also today it was worth it because I ended up adding almost a whole tablespoon more salt. 

We got enough for a dinner for my parents and us, and two more packs for the freezer. Not bad for meat otherwise thrown out, huh?