Sausage Review - we review sausages

The Farm Butchery (Codicote, Herts) - Traditional Pork

The Farm Butchery shop is towards the North end of the High Street, Codicote. We called by on the way back from Knebworth, yes a round trip but we'd heard that sausages from here were worth trying. We hadn't intended to make a second sausage purchase of the day after the somewhat large meat purchase at Knebworth, but hey...

The Farm Butchery say they use 100% British pork, but the butchery assistant wasn't able to tell me from where exactly unfortunately. From their web site we note: "When we took on our butcher’s shop back in 2017 we were told "to be a success you need to have a good sausage" and we couldn’t agree more! All our sausages are lovingly made in store, by our very own hands! We select the right cuts of pork and combine with the right ratio of fat, rusk and water before blending with various herbs, spices and other ingredients to provide a range of delicious, flavourful sausages."


We'll give them a go shall we...70% pork meat with gluten free breadcrumbs and spices go in to these sausages. Natural casings that look reasonable quality from inspection too. Sounds OK.

Right, cooked up, nicely browned, skins held well but taste-wise I'm sorry to say they were very plain. Texture-wise medium, meaty and the bite and chew good too.

Now we're a family that doesn't over salt and season, but these did need more to be enjoyed to be honest. Perhaps a mixing problem when making?

The were OK but we wouldn't perhaps buy these again.


The Farm Butchery (Codicote, Herts) - Traditional Pork (Apr 2024)

Here's the sample details:
120x30mm before cooking, 110x30mm after.
76g before cooking, 71g after.
That's an overall shrinkage of 8% & weight loss of approx 6%.
6 loose sausages (446g) £4.37 (£9.79/Kg (approx)).


   

 

The Farm Butchery
High Street
Codicote
Hertfordshire
SG4 8XD

01438 820342

thefarmbutcheryonline.co.uk