Sausage Review - we review sausages

Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - The Original Directors Choice

The Original Directors Choice, it would appear are one of Churchgate's "best sellers". We particularly liked these before when we tried them in 2020, but do they still get the thumbs up from the Sausage Review troops?...

Jason Drage and sausage man Dan of the Churchgate Sausage Company at Mayfield Farm on the Sheering Road in Essex make some seriously top quality sausages which keep people coming back time and time again to buy...and must be bang on with their product then!  They get plenty of compliments about their sausages, and some of them are from us!

Suffice to say, because of popularity too, Churchgate now have in addition a little retail shop locally in Sawbridgeworth too, details below.

The Original Directors Choice sausage is interesting.  50:50 quality local pork shoulder and pork belly with fresh sage, parsley and plenty of freshly ground black pepper.  Quality natural skins of course, it goes without saying. Red Tractor Approved pork from one Essex Farm, who grow all their own feed and have the highest animal welfare standards possible. The mix is very consistent and the texture is a definitely on the coarse side of medium.

They are looking pretty good in the raw I will say, and we are promised rich flavours and a succulent bite from their 50-year-old recipe.  Well there you go!

These beauties are indeed plump, succulent, eat really well and although one of the team here still is not big on pepper at all, she said she really liked them yet again.  Yahoo! 

We've completed so many reviews regarding Churchgate's sausages, you can take it from us, their sausages are all stonkingly good and you will not be disappointed in these in particular. Yes they may seem expensive generally compared with other makers produce, but hey you do get produce that is absolute quality.

We've eaten the Directors, simply from the pan on a fork, in a sandwich, a sausage toad, cassaroled, a tray bake with winter veg, in shortcrust pastry as a sausage pie and.....as a sausage & mash...winner winner lovely dinner!  Thumbs up all round yet again!

However this time a slight twist. We've cooked up the sausages then sliced them into 5mm rounds, for use as a PIZZA TOPPING ! Fire up the pizza oven...  You must give this a go...really good.

Right let's make it simple.  Just go and buy some Directors Choice, or order some for delivery, you won't regret it! 

Oh yes, and please tell Jason and Dan you heard it from us!


Churchgate (Old Harlow, Essex) - The Original Directors Choice      (May 2019 / Aug 2020 / Jul 2025)

Here's the sample details:
110x30mm before cooking, 105x30mm after.
84g before cooking, 79g after.
That's a shrinkage of 4% & weight loss of approx 5%.
6 loose approx 500g at £8.50  (£17/Kg)

   

 

 

 

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May 2019    May 2019

                                                        

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