Sausage Review - we review sausages

CJ Barker (East Harling, Norfolk) - Plain Pork

We visited my sister at a fishing lodge in East Harling for the day. Whilst the men were fishing, the ladies went for a walk and came back with sausages! Well there's a thing. It would be rude not to sample these really wouldn't it?...

The butcher had informed us that these porkers are at least 85% meat and that comes from his own brother's herd of free range pigs farmed locally. I must say they look very good. Good colour, good natural skins without any bagginess and a proper firmness of contents. They do have rusk in them we believe, so unlikely to be gluten or wheat free.

Cooked up they're a tasty, medium texture, very meaty and succulent. There's white pepper in these we are sure that gives a really nice taste. All in a very good result so far, however there was some weight loss and shrinkage unfortunately.

Not withstanding that these do have a really good bite and chew, and would make an ideal everyday sausage (not that we advocate everyday of course) and worked really well in our sausage and mash supper.

Pricewise you cannot argue, 6 decently made sausages in good skins for just over £4, now come on!

Would we buy again? Yes please...we certainly will. Put me down for a dozen next time.

CJ Barker (East Harling, Norfolk) - Plain Pork   (May 2025)

Here's the sample details:
100x30mm before cooking, 90x30mm after.
72g before cooking, 64g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 11% & weight loss of approx 10%.
6 loose sausages £4.35 (approx £9.94/kg)

CJ Barker - High Quality Butchers
Market St,
East Harling,
Norwich
NR16 2AD

01953 717203

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