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Mystycroft
(Halstead)
- Old Smokey
Let's get
straight to the point...these are
blooming good smokey flavoured sausage with
plenty of go from good quality
ingredients! They've made our
all time top 10, so you won't go
wrong with these!
Prompted by
an email, we popped over to Halstead
Market and met the very nice people
from Mystycroft. Needless to say we
came away with a few different packs
of their produce, of which Old
Smokey finds way to our sampling
first!
Mystycroft from Burtons Green,
Halstead, Essex was established in
2009 and rear their own rare breed
Oxford Sandy & Black, Large
Black, and some Pietrain pigs. Their sausage man
Stuart Osborne, tells me that the
quality of pork produced is very
high and the flavour is exceptional.
Please visit their web site (link
below) for more information as they
also produce bacon, ham, pork joints
and to be honest the range of
sausages produced is extensive. Now
come on, 26 different flavours of
sausage is extensive in any ones
book!
So the Old Smokey...interesting...the
labelling states 79% pork, but I'm
sure the percentage is higher. The
smokey flavouring is from added
essence so let's be clear that these
aren't "smoked"sausage, however the
flavour is wonderfully smokey all
the same. The skins are good quality
natural hog as they should be in our
opinion for proper sausages!
Cooked up they are succulent,
flavoursome, with a good bite and
chew. Texture-wise, medium and they
do have a slight crumbliness as you
eat which I liked. Exceptional
with mash and onions I have to say
and good value too.
The troops here concurred, these are
a proper sausage!
We will definitely have some more of
these..
Mystycroft - Old Smokey
(Nov
2013)
Here's the
sample details:
100x28mm before cooking, 95x30mm
after.
73g before cooking, 63g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 0% & weight
loss of approx 13%.
6 sausages approx. £3.50
(£7.95/kg)
Mystycroft Quality Meats
Burtons
Green
Halstead
ESSEX
CO9 1RH
www.essexpork.co.uk
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