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Meatline (Maldon)
- Cumberland
With
Meatline's victory at the the
2012 Maldon Best of British Sausage
Awards we were hoping for something
similar with their cumberlands as we
had had with their Welsh Dragons...
As a raw sausage they looked very
good, but a bit of a problem in the
cooking was noted as quite a few
burst in the pan even with the heat
well down. The skins just
ripped wide open lengthways and
sausage eruptions occurred at some
ends. Shame really as
initially they looked very good
sizzling away.
We didn't
check the meat percentage when we
picked these up so going by the
previous from Meatline we've tested
we'll go with over 65% meat,
in hog casings. The contents
didn't appear to be packed too tightly,
so the level of rupturing came as a
bit of a surprise. Lengthways
shrinkage of the skins happened to
all the frypan's contents with the
ensuing
small eruptions at the ends. Cooking
on/under an even lower heat I doubt
would resolve this.
Tastewise rather mild for a
cumberland we thought, but certainly
a succulent sausage with a
smooth/medium texture and reasonable
bite.
Meatline (Maldon) - Cumberland 
(Oct
2012)
Here's the
sample details:
95x30mm before cooking, 90 (incl the
sausage eruption) x32mm
after.
63g before cooking, 54g after
average.
That's a shrinkage of approx 0% & weight loss of approx
14%.
6 sausages approx £2.80
(approx £5.20/kg)
www.meatline.co.uk
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