Sausage Review - we review sausages

Priors Hall Farm (Dunmow) - Farmhouse

Priors Hall Farm sausages were as far as we are concerned our benchmark that others should be judged against, as their flavour, texture, bite and quality of the natural skins are what you would expect and should get with a proper sausage. These FARMHOUSE sausages are still very good and frankly keep that benchmark as high as it should be.

Our previous local Budgen's store used to stock a wide variety of flavours from this producer, however now that Central Co-Op have taken over the store, sadly we cannot obtain Priors Hall produce locally anymore.

We happend to visit Pearces Farm Shop on the A10 southbound near Puckeridge (Hertfordshire) for lunch recently and although there is now an independent butchery (Bridget B) located on the parking area, we didn't get served their sausages for our lunch which prompted me to have a good look around the farm shop deli. As it happens, I found sausages just like those we had been served. Priors Hall Farm sausages were indeed available. Odd that the cafe wasn't serving sausages from the onsite butchery, but hey, something else to find out about.

Now we’ve sampled other producers farmhouse sausages, and these were by far the best we'd tasted way back in 2014. The dried sage and ground black pepper added to the mix certainly gave them a lift and made for an excellent taste experience.

80% free range pork in good quality natural skins, how it should be too. The free range pork itself used now days is outsourced from a high standard free-range supplier on the Suffolk borders. We'll see if we can track down whom exactly and report back.

These farmhouse sausages cooked up wonderfully just like before, all nice and brown with a lovely aroma from the pan. The meat texture just under medium with a very slight crumble which again fits our bill and makes for a good mouth experience. The good quality natural skins made for a good chew and bite. We know that pan frying isn't everyones method, but that's what we do.

OK a little shrinkage and weight loss, but reasonably so to be fair. Other cooking methods will no doubt provide differences to what we have found.

When it comes to value we noted that the pack price had increased, well you'd expect that in just over 10 years of course. Infact using the Bank of England online inflation calculator, the £7.38/Kg in 2014, would be not far off the £11/kg today. So Priors Hall Farm sausages would appear to be still reasonably good value as far as we are concerned. 6 reasonably sized good quality sausages for just over £4 is good in anybody's book.

There you go. Priors Hall Farm still produce an extremely good free range FARMHOUSE sausage which would be certainly without doubt worth trying yourselves.

Priors Hall Farm
Lindsell
Great Dunmow
Essex CM6 3QR
01371 870 256 


Priors Hall Farm - Farmhouse (Nov 2014 / Jan 2025)

Here's the sample details:
120x30mm before cooking, 115x30mm after.
66g before cooking, 60g after.
That's a shrinkage of 4% & weight loss of approx 9%.
6 sausages 388g pack £4.29 (£11/kg approx)

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www.priorshallfarm.co.uk