Sausage Review - we review sausages

In a conversation with one of my business customers, who as head chef at a very good London restaurant I would consider he knows a thing or two about food, suggested we should try these P&M sausages.

He had said that he had struggled to find a decent textured sausage, so I suggested that we did a “swap”. I’d drop him off a pack from our go to supplier and he would get us some from a supplier that he had used for years, even at the previous restaurant in Chigwell he worked. I must admit I did feel a bit awkward when we exchanged goodies though as I had for him a six pack and he gave us a big catering pack containing a whopping 18 bangers! I didn’t see that one coming!

P&M are based in Marsh Lane, Leyton E10, east London and supply restaurants, catering establishments and eateries with a variety of sausage delight. Their production is over two sites, one in Leyton and the other St Neots, Cambridgeshire, and notably have supplied the House of Lords and the Commons. P&M’s Cumberland sausages also made an appearance in the BBC’s Apprentice programme with the teams tasked with making best quality sausages. P&M’s were chosen as an example of a quality gourmet sausage with a high meat content.

From the testimonials on the P&M’s web site they will supply retail and are not just a business supplier which is nice to know…have a look at their site from the link below.

The Cumberlands we sampled are the “award winning” traditional sausage they produce with a herby flavour and a slightly coarse texture. Certainly at minimum 72% pork in natural skins they do look very good.

My chef contact prefers to cook these sausages in the oven he tells me but we pan fried to be consistent with all our other sampling. We also passed on half a dozen of the same pack to another family member to try separately which got a good reception as it happens and no doubt made her sausage toad very tasty!

We had expected the sausage texture once cooked up to be slightly course as the online description had indicated, however we thought they were actually rather smooth-ish to be honest in our opinion but they did have a bold herby peppery flavour. We did also find that they were quite “salty” which we thought may be possibly the added E621 being MSG flavour enhancer. This wasn’t detrimental but worth noting. Mind you as a BBQ sausage for a garden party or family get together for example these porkers would be pretty good.

Eaten cold they were good too…I finished up a couple for breakfast sliced up in a toasted sandwich with a dob of BBQ sauce 😋

We didn’t get a pack price as they were a sort of gift, but please see the P&M web site link below for more details. 

P&M Sausages (Leyton E10) - Cumberlands    (Aug 2021)

Here's the sample details:
110x30mm before cooking, 100x32mm after.
85g before cooking, 79g after.
That's a shrinkage of approx 3% & weight loss of approx 7%.


      

P&M Sausages
2 Marsh Lane
Leyton
London E10 7BL

0208 558 4720

www.pmsausages.com