Creake Abbey Farmers Market - What A Haul!

Just in from the fabulous farmers market at Creake Abbey, where I managed to find a bounty of beautiful bangers to review. Yes dear reader, Rate My Sausage is back in business and the sausage reviews will start to appear soon....

The market is bootiful, really bootiful, and judging by the crowds thronging each area it's a firm favourite with local lovers of great local produce. Of course we are mainly about the bangers and we snaffled and stashed away the following:

Lisa Scothern's Pork, Leek & Bacon sausages

Sam  Papworths  Johnson Flyers and Sandringham sausages

Fruitpig Company Rare Breed Pork, Apricot, Red Onion & Ginger sausages

Ian Wright Norfolk Pork sausages

Fen Farm Venison's Venison & Pork sausages

Alburgh Lamb's Lamb & Mint sausages

We've reviewed sausages from some of these butchers before, if you would like to read what we wrote simply click on the blue links in the lines above.

It was great to meet up with some old friends and to meet some new (to me) and talented producers of high quality produce. The morning was a huge success, a major step back to productivity for RMS, and the breakfast in the cafe was lovely (the teapot was a three-cupper!).

Guest Review - Jonny B - Ian Wright Norfolk Pork Sausage

First thing to say: these are not generic factory sausages that carry a celebrity endorsement from former Arsenal striker and TV personality ‘Wrighty’. Actually, I can’t think of anybody less like the Norfolk Pork Butcher and Sausage Maker Ian Wright – the latter is a quiet, genial, elderly chap who’s based out Norwich way – he sells his stuff at Creake farmer’s market, although I have also seen him at Sandringham occasionally.

Creake (as I recall) was a bit poncey when it started out – but it’s settled down nicely and there is some genuinely good and reasonably-priced-for-what-it-is stuff to be had there. Ian’s pork stall is next to the popular curry lady, which is a blessing and a curse – a blessing as I’m sure he nicks the odd free bhaji; a curse because queues of curry lovers often swamp his pitch. I’ve never seen him not be good natured about it, however – he sells with a smile on his face. All his stuff is keenly-priced – I guess that he could probably invest in some fancy labels and charge double, but that wouldn’t be him, somehow.

His pigs are Essexes (not being a pig person, I can’t tell you whether that’s good or not) and his sausages – or at least the Norfolk Pork ones that I stock up on regularly – are of the beautiful, slightly bready, melt-in-the-mouth ilk. They are my favourite sausages, and I always eat too many with breakfast.

I can’t rival Simon’s dedication with the weighing and measuring, I’m afraid – but I did take a picture with my phone. I commend them to you. 

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Jonny B moved to Norfolk from London a couple of years ago, and his brilliantly written, painfully funny blog  is called Private Secret Diary - check it out here:  http://www.privatesecretdiary.com/
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