Trolley 403

Three Waitrose trolleys captured from a new stash in one of the car parks between Station Approach and the High Street, discovered the evening before. Three being enough to push in a busy High Street, the M&S food hall trolley was left for another occasion -  or another trolley man.

With these three, the Waitrose stack was full to overflowing, poking half a metre out into the walkway. Perhaps a miscalculation on the part of their trolley man, as one might have thought that the shop would be busy, late on a Saturday morning.

Rewarded at home by a day of the sausage, that is to say eight Cumberland sausages from the butcher at Manor Green Road. Fried for about half an hour in rape seed oil (lid on), served hot with boiled potatoes (skin on) and crinkly cabbage. Five and a half of them went that way. Date slice for dessert. A further half was grazed in the afternoon and the last two were taken with mustard and brown bread early evening. English mustard, made up from powder in the old way.

And although I say it myself, cooked this way, over a low heat, the sausages did not stick. Sausages sticking and their skins being torn being the bane of my childhood - when cheap sausages were fried in lard without a lid.

Note that cold, the sausage meat was a deep red, rather than the grey of lesser sausages. Probably something to do with having meat in them, as well as fat and rusk.

PS: the butcher told me that Cumberland might have been where this type of sausage was invented, but as far as he was concerned it was the name of a recipe.

Reference 1: https://www.masterbutchersepsom.co.uk/. Slightly out of date in that the butcher illustrated on the front page has now retired. But the shop lives on under new management!