Sausage Review - Churchgate

Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - Classic Pork

The Classic Pork remains a superb example of a properly made and presented traditional pork sausage. 80%+ quality pork mixed with traditional flavouring ingredients loaded in to a nicely filled quality hog casing makes for a very good product...

Jason Drage who runs the Churchgate Sausage Company based at Mayfield Farm (Old Harlow, nr Sheering, Essex) certainly knows his stuff when it comes to making sausages. The selection available of some really good flavours has proven to be very popular.

Jason tells us that the free range outdoor reared pork used is still currently obtained from a respected single supplier in Essex.

The filling we note continues to be minced a tad finer than way back, which does give these sausages some firmness both in the raw and cooked up. This isn't a bad thing with the cooked texture becoming somewhat smoother. Still a good bite and chew though. The natural skins are top quality too, cook up really well and the classic pork is still a great tasting traditional sausage. I thought perhaps a tad sweeter in taste, but the troops said they didn't get that...

We invited some friends for a sausage supper tasting recently too, where the Classic Pork featured (along with other suppliers of course) and we can say that they went down really well gaining some suitably positive comments about taste and texture. These are gluten free too, so would also appeal to those who need to avoid such. We had to deliberately fight to keep a couple back to be eaten cold later. Suffice to say, eaten cold they were very good!

These are still one of Churchgate's best sellers and we can see why. These certainly are premium sausages, and yes they command a good price. However you only get what you pay for and these are top notch quality!

As an aside, the little shop in Sawbridgeworth has been busy everytime I've been past...just saying!

Go buy some Churchgate Classic Porks...you won't be disappointed!

Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - Classic Pork (Sep 2012 / Jan 2015 / Nov 2023 / Feb 2026)

Here's the sample details:
115x30mm before cooking, 110x31mm after.
85g before cooking, 81g after.
That's a shrinkage of 1% & weight loss of approx 4%.
6 sausages / 500g approx. �9.50 (�19.99/kg)

Nov 2023

Nov 2023


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www.churchgatesausage.co.uk

Unit 5, Mayfields Farm,
Sheering Road
Old Harlow
Essex CM17 0JP.

Tel: 01279 444 812

And now also at:

23 Bell St,
Sawbridgeworth
Herts., CM21 9AR

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