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Millins (Tiptree)
- Pork & Herb
Another visit to
granny in Suffolk via the A120 / Marks Tey and the
Poplar Nursery Shop....If you do go,
look out for the elephant!
The packaging
yet again was a bit light on information as to
what percentage meat content and the
casings used but like last time from the feel these
pork & herb sausages are pretty firm,
perhaps indicating
a high end percentage in natural
casings.
Individually
they are about average size-wise, look
well made though, and at £7.00 a kilo
are fairly reasonably priced too.
Cooked up they're very meaty with a
strong-ish flavour and certainly
weren't at the back of the queue
when it came to adding the herbs.
Quite a powerful flavour herb wise,
perhaps a little too powerful though
for us. There
was
spice there but we thought they could
have done with
a bit more as the "herbiness" just
muscled through. A medium
course texture,
quite crumbly, with a medium bite. Even
though these were cooked thoroughly
there was still a noticeable
pinkness to the meat.
Eaten in the "cold next day"
test...very nice! Weight loss
and shrinkage in cooking were both a
bit higher than we expected
unfortunately.
We sampled also with mash, onions and
gravy, and they worked very well!
Not a bad sausage at all, just a bit
too OTT with herbs!
I must give Millins a call for more details on the makings.
Now if you do call in to sample some
of these sausages yourself, please tell the
shop
that you read about them in Sausage
Review...
Millins (Tiptree) - Pork & Herb
(Sep 2013)
Here's the
sample details:
120x28mm before cooking, 100x28mm
after.
79g before cooking, 61g after
average.
That's a shrinkage of approx 16% & weight loss of approx
22%.
6 sausages £3.01
(approx £7.00/kg)
www.millinsoftiptree.co.uk
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