Good Morning, from what feels like the middle of a serious tempest here in Somerset. The hatches are very much “battened down” on top the hill here where the smokery sits. One can’t help but feel a little sorry for Will who having decided to stay on with us long term started his training with Tim on how to become a ‘Master Smoker’ yesterday. This morning he is tackling the extremely tricky business of roasting our Goose and Plum sausages over the open fire of the hot smoker. Now this is a tricky cook at the best of times due to the glorious goose fat that is obviously a significant ingredient of a goose sausage. As you’d expect when they get going and start dripping some of that lovely fat onto the fire it can get quite excitable and not watched properly a decent inferno can develop very quickly! When it does 80 glorious sausages become 80 burnt matchsticks in the winking of an eye!! Add to that, that this morning we have 40 mile an hour winds and our flue is 15 foot proud of the roof the efficiency with which the fire is drawing is almost scary. No pressure for the poor boy but I have made it clear that every destroyed sausage comes out of his wage packet (honestly it’s the only way he will learn)! Just to add a little more to his apprehension Tim is taking plenty of photos which I have attached.
We are so grateful to be as busy as ever and continue to send all sorts of parcels and gifts of food all over the place to hopefully give people a lift with messages of good days to come from loved ones they are temporarily cut off from. The Jolly January Box and indeed all our hampers are proving hugely popular as are our pates and steaks as gastronomic treats seem to be one of the few things people can have to look forward to and cheer them up of an evening after what can feel like to many, long dreary days. So order away at our websitewww.brownandforrest.co.uk or call Amber in the office on 01458 250875.
As for me Mrs P has messaged to say that tonight we are having toad in the hole with our pork and cider sausages it is one of my absolute favourites and she mixes thinly sliced leeks and red onion into the batter which is simply glorious. My mood has already lifted as a result and I will now have to wipe down my keyboard as I appear to have drooled onto it!
I must away as there appears to be rather too strong a smell of roasting sausages coming up the stairs and Amber is looking rather nervously towards the amount of smoke that is wafting towards us and Tim’s voice is now significantly louder than it was and appears to only be using words of one syllable. Is this the end of the shortest apprenticeship in history …?
Keep warm, safe and dry today if you can.
My very, very best regards,
Jess
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