Sausage Review - we review sausages

We visited a Food Fayre locally the other day and there was a very friendly stallholder with sausages...just too much temptation to resist...so some Farmhouse Porks from Hinxworth will be next...

Farrowby Farm, Hinxworth is just off the A1 south of Biggleswade in the county of Hertfordshire. Free range pigs and poultry, tea room and other open farm interests are offered. Bacon is "as it used to be" we're advised, so here's looking forward to tasting these sausages then!

70% pork meat with some rusk and spices go in to these farmhouse sausages. The lady at the food fayre apologised but couldn't confirm what the casings were, but we'd say they were reasonable quality natural ones from inspection.

Quite a small sausage in the raw however they "plumpted" up and cooked very nicely! Now we do like "big and bold", but there's a place for "small and subtle" when it comes to good sausages. Little overall shrinkage and weight loss, and minimal oil residue in the pan. One of our samplers was most complementary about these being "meaty" as she devoured and munched one in a sandwich, and I tend to agree. The flavour was good with a small amount of lingering spice on the tongue. Texture was smooth to medium with a good meaty bite. These are a proper job!

I'm yet to speak to Beverley at Farrowby Farm about our review, but when I have, I'll add some additional commentary here, so please bookmark this page and return..


Farrowby Farm (Hinxworth) - Farmhouse  (Dec 2012)

Here's the sample details:
95x25mm before cooking, 80x30mm after.
51g before cooking, 47g after.
That's an overall shrinkage of 0% & weight loss of approx 7%.
8 sausages in a 406g pack £2.42 (£5.95/Kg (approx)).




 

Farrowby Farm 
Hinxworth
Hertfordshire
SG7 5EY