Sausage Review - we review sausages

I helped our friends of many years, who live in Thorrington in Essex, with some DIY on their home and we got a home cooked Sunday lunch with them AND a pack of sausages as a thank you! Plastering a beamed ceiling would have probably been rated as worth more than lunch and a simple pack of sausages etc. but it was a favour afterall!...

I'd happened to mention in passing that we quite liked venison sausages last time we saw them, so when they were over at Smith's they picked us up some. Interestingly the pack appears labelled as Gunfield so they'd probably bought in, but that's not going to put us off. If Smith's are selling them, they must be OK.

However in truth we didn't nearly eat them as they had spent rather long in our freezer but thankfully we just made the eat by date. A close call to be sure but when cooked up they were very good.

The wild venison used comes entirely from the East Anglian countryside we have read and is sourced under sustainable conservation management, all fully traceable and handled solely by the staff at Moverons Farm.

We needed to cook up all six pronto, so in the pan they went and what wafts of sausage goodness that brought on. The aroma of the cooking sausages was very good.

Venison is really lean meat so these type of sausages normally have pork / pork fat added to prevent them drying out in the cooking process. The labelling indicates this but as for the percentage I will have to look into that further when I get opportunity. The oil residue in the pan after cooking was minimal but not serious and the weight loss measurement was small too, so there may have been probably a small rather than large percentage of pork was added.

The texture of the sausage meat was firm, giving a very good bite and chew. The natural skins were good too and well contained their meaty innards. 

Excellent value as it happens at £5 for the six.  We ate these as a sausage and mash as it happens with onion gravy.  Nice!

Thumbs up from all the team is what I like to see! 


Gunfield (Brightlingsea) - Wild Venison  (Dec 2021)

Here's the sample details:
120x35mm before cooking, 115x35mm after.
108g before cooking, 102g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 4% & weight loss of approx 3%.
£5 for a pack of 6...

www.gunfieldwildvenison.co.uk


Smiths of Essex Ltd
14 High St,
Brightlingsea,
Colchester CO7 0AE
01206 302939

www.smithsbutcher.co.uk

Sunday: Closed
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 8am – 4pm
Wednesday: 8am – 4pm
Thursday: 8am – 4pm
Friday: 8am – 4pm
Saturday: 7:30am – 3pm