Mystycroft (Halstead) - Pork
& Wild Mushroom We previously tried the Mystycroft blooming good smokey flavoured sausage with plenty of gogo from good quality ingredients, so lets give these pork & wild mushroom try...
We'd popped over to Halstead Market and met the very nice people from Mystycroft and came away with a few different packs of their produce.
Mystycroft are based at Burtons Green, Halstead, Essex, established in 2009 and rear their own rare breed Oxford Sandy & Black, Large Black, and some Pietrain pigs. The quality of pork produced is very high and the flavour is exceptional.
So pork & wild mushroom then...71% pork it says on the label, but I'm sure the percentage is higher. Cooked up they are very succulent too, and flavoursome albeit on the mild side, but with a good bite and chew. Texture-wise, medium and they like the "smokeys" do have a slight crumbliness as you eat which I liked. The troops here once again concurred, these are a proper sausage!
We will definitely have some more of these...
Mystycroft (Halstead) - Pork & Wild Mushroom
(Nov
2013)
Here's the
sample details:
105x35mm before cooking,
100x33mm after.
88g
before cooking, 80g after.
That's a shrinkage of
approx 10% & weight loss of
approx 9%.
6 sausages
approx. £3.93 (£7.95/kg)
Mystycroft Quality Meats
Burtons Green
Halstead ESSEX CO9 1RH
www.essexpork.co.uk
