Piggott's (Buntingford) -
Old Timer
Dropped in to the
Buntingford Carnival to meet
our daughter and take in
what's a really good
street carnival atmosphere.
Many of the shops were open
and promoting their goods
and produce. Piggott's
the butchers had a barbeque
set-up outside and the aroma
from cooking sausages was
like a homing beacon for
me...
Old Timer as a named sausage
had me intrigued. I'm
sure these must be around
70% plus meat in natural
skins and in the raw looked
very good in the shop
display.
Cooked up the skins did
brown really well but the
sausage content itself still
had a pinky look to it even
though it was definitely
well cooked.
Taste-wise nice and herby
but with quite a "porky"
flavour. Also slightly
more salty than we would prefer.
Texture-wise smooth to
medium, with a good chew, however the skins
were a tad tougher than we
would prefer.
We agreed that these were an
OK sausage but not something
we would purchase regularly.
Piggott's (Buntingford) -
Old Timer
(Jun
2016)
Here's the
sample details:
120x30mm before cooking, 110x30mm
after.
83g before cooking, 67g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 8% & weight
loss of approx 19%.
6 loose sausages £2.76
(£5.60/kg approx).