What amount of spice per pound can anyone recommend for Italian and breakfast sausage. The spices I bought from a butcher have no guidelines for usage and I did not ask but from the sausage of his that I have had they were a bit to tame for my taste buds I will be grinding a pork butt and some trimmings form pork ribs for this. As I said I tend to like my sausage fairly strong flavored.