Types of fresh sausage include breakfast sausage, Polish sausage, Italian Sausage, and bratwurst. Cured Sausage Cures sausage, like fresh sausage, cured sausage is also made from ground meat and spices, but cured sausage undergoes a curing process to prolong the shelf-life of the meat.For centuries, people have been curing meat by adding salts, drying meat, or fermenting meat.ausage has been made for thousands of years, originally as a delicious means of preserving meat. Before refrigeration, salts and cures were added to meat to prevent it from spoiling. As time passed, new spices were added, as well as better sausage making techniques, that improved the quality and taste of sausage.