The British magazine Country Life has just held a nationwide competition to find the UK's best sausage and the banger that emerged victorious was the magnificently-named Malmesbury King from Wiltshire.
The speciality of butcher Michael Thomas, the sausage is said to contain coarse pork shoulder flavoured with rosemary, thyme, parsley and ginger.
Sounds gorgeous. The winning sausage will now appear on the menu in Bar Boulud in the Mandarin Oriental hotel in London (in a sandwich, I hope!).
This, the only coarse-cut sausage to make the shortlist, is made to Mr Thomas's own recipe, using a shoulder-cut of pork (specially sourced from pigs with good conformation), minced just once and hand-mixed with rosemary, thyme, parsley and a sprinkling of ginger, before being piped into natural hog casings. The judges deemed the Malmesbury King to have the most pleasing, rustic, herby appearance and a satisfying, piquant taste. Mr Thomas now has the honour of the Malmesbury King being served in Bar Boulud.
Link: Country Life
3 comments:
This is a great blog. About a subject very dear to me....sausages!
when I left the UK it was the one thing I missed. A decent sausage. So I started making my own.
I was getting so many orders for them, I ended up writing a free guide so everyone could make their own. Its still available for free at http://www.sausages-sausages.com
I will be visiting this blog regularly...keep up the good work.
Barry
Love your blog. I'm going to try to make this sausage myself. After I make it I'll post the results on my blog.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Sounds like a great tasting sausage. I'm going to try and recreate it in my own kitchen. Thanks for posting.
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