Sausage Review - we review sausages

Bridget B's of Watton-at-Stone in Hertfordshire make some attractive looking sausages for sure...

We bought at pack of traditional pork from Pearce's, our firm favourite farm shop on the A10 near Braughing, although Bridget B's do sell from their onsite farm butchery at Sacombe Hill Farm, Watton-at-Stone, Nr Hertford, SG14 3NL and also Reg Newman's old shop which they've taken on at 36 High Street, Watton-at-Stone.

90% pork meat is a bold statement, but from the look of them in the raw these are a damn good looking banger!  Natural skins thankfully because we've tried some not so sausages lately from other makers using those collagen cases and we've not been impressed at all.

Cooking up produced a lovely aroma from the pan, the skins worked well with no splits and no residual oil.  Ok a slight eruption from an end or two of the samples, but as the sausages were pre-cut (rather than still in a string) we think these may have been separated a bit too close leaving the skins a bit short at the ends to allow for them to tighten down as they are cooked. Yes yes, a bit nit picky but there you go!  Honest reviews.

With 90% pork, from experience, we thought that these sausages may have cooked up a bit solid, however the texture was a chunky medium and retained good succulence too. The bite and chew were pleasing, and the flavour just like a traditional pork should be in our books.  A slight tingle on the tongue afterwards...perhaps that was the celery salt listed on the ingredients?

Although these sausages stayed plump, with minimum shrinkage, weight loss was a touch more than we expected.  

All in all a very good traditional pork sausage and at £7.30 / kg perhaps fair value too.

Would we buy again? Definitely...but we'll try some of Bridget B's other flavours first perhaps.


Bridget B's (Watton-at-Stone) - Traditional Pork  (Apr 2017)

Here's the sample details:
125x32mm before cooking, 120x32mm after.
122g before cooking, 106g after.
That's an overall shrinkage of 4% & weight loss of approx 13%.
6 sausages in a 664g pack £4.85 (£7.30/Kg).


   

  
 

Sacombe Farm Shop
Sacombe Hill Farm,
Watton-at-Stone,
Nr Hertford,
Hertfordshire
SG14 3NL

Monday – Saturday,
6:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

01920 831082

www.bridgetbs.co.uk