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Red Poll Beef
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| Latest news Home Red Poll Beef Willow & Hazel Storytelling About us Links Contact us Ordering |
We sell most of our beef
direct to the consumer. Customers are notified of the next date on
which beef will be available; they place orders in advance and we
deliver locally, or customers collect. To be added to our
customer list please contact
us or complete the form to the right (and see below). Next beef will be available spring 2010. Frozen beef available now We have a small number of frozen silverside joints available now. Silverside is one of the great joints for a slow pot-roast. At £10.95/kg it's more affordable than some other cuts and really comes into its own when cooked in a well-sealed stew pot on a very low heat. Just bung it in with a generous lashing of your favourite root veg, perhaps some wine or beer and leave it in the oven for as long as you can resist - at least three hours; top up liquid if needed. High quality dining doesn't come much easier than that. Contact us to find out what we have for sale now. Click here to see our current price list Our mailing list If you would like us to let you know about developments at Wassledine, please complete the form to the right and click subscribe. At present this is mainly to let you know when our beef is available, but we will probably also send out the occasional message to tell you about new products or seasonal things when these become available. We will only contact you when we have something we think you might like to know. Your address will be stored with a secure third party (mailchimp.com) and we won't pass it to anyone else. It's very easy to take your name off of the list - just click "unsubscribe" on any message from us. HTML is the most usual format in which to receive email messages, so click on that unless you want information sent to your mobile or if you have your browser security set very high in which case it might block these messages. If that's the case, click on text. |
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| Red Poll Cattle The Red Poll is East Anglia's native breed, a cross between a Suffolk polled (hornless) bull and a Norfolk cow (both now extinct), and was first described as a breed in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. In the early Twentieth Century it was one of the dominant breeds in English dairy farming. The breed is truly dual purpose, producing excellent tasting beef, and a good yield of milk with a high butterfat and protein content. We don't milk though; that's left to the calves. There is more information about the breed at Red Poll Cattle Society |
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| Why we chose Red Poll Cattle When we decided to buy cattle, we spent a long time talking to people, reading and thinking about which breed to keep. We knew that our land and to some extent our characters were suited to an old fashioned native breed so we didn't spend much time considering modern continentals. When asked, we found that most cattle people swear that their favoured breed produces the best beef on the poorest forage, is the easiest calver, is the friendliest, best at crosswords, etc. When it came down to it we liked the idea of a local breed and as we are just about in East Anglia, the choice was suddenly limited. But what really made the decision easy was an introduction to a couple in a neighbouring village who have kept Red Polls for a while. Their enthusiasm and generosity caught us; the taste of the beef sealed the decision. |
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Of course Red Polls have proved to be easy calvers and excellent mothers, producing plentiful milk throughout an eight month lactation. They seem to cope happily with adverse weather and relatively poor feed and they are on the whole pretty docile although we have a couple of characters who need to be treated with respect. We bought our first three in-calf cows in 2003 and have since grown very fond of them... ..and they produce fantastic beef. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comments from some of our
customers...
A very
belated email to thank you for providing us with such delicious
meat. The braising steak we had was the best I honestly have
ever tasted - it was so tender. The beefburgers were exactly
the same and it was the first time in my life that I have grilled
burgers and not been left with a grill pan full of fat - I was amazed.
We
very much look forward to sampling other cuts (if we are lucky) on the
next occasion.
"..and definitely yes to some more meat, the forerib was amazing!!!!!!" Siobhan, Great Barford "Last order had some great tasting meat. The sirloin steaks were particularly good" AJ, Letchworth |
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| Our
System In our extensive system, steers are ready for killing at 24-28 months, compared to more intensive practice where animals can be killed as young as 18 months. Our single suckler herd allows calves to suckle milk to the age of 8-10 months and grow quickly in the most natural way possible. The herd grazes beautiful riverside meadows that are in the Countryside Stewardship Scheme, for most of the year, eating fresh grass and a wide range of herbage in the summer months and our own hay and a little bought-in feed over the winter. All of which adds up to contented cattle. |
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01462 711815 M. 07794 013876 E. info[at]wassledine.co.uk |
From Field to Fork Slaughter Maturation Butchery Point of sale If you would like to know when our beef will next be available and to be added to our customer list, have a look at the top of this page or contact us. We are currently a very small producer - we killed only four animals in 2009, so don't always have fresh beef available. Our production will expand with the herd over the coming years. Please note that due to high demand locally, we have not needed to deliver meat to customers outside a range of 2 miles. This will change in the future, so please don't be put off contacting us. Ordering Once on our list, we will let you know when beef will next be available. You place an order and your fresh meat will be ready for collection or delivery on a specific date. Delivery and collection We currently do not mail order meat. We can deliver free in Gravenhurst. Otherwise you will need to collect by prior arrangement. Frozen meat Available throughout the year - please contact us for availability |
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| Our prices (August 2009) |
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| *Sausages
are 80% beef with added breadcrumb and flavouring (horseradish).
Sold in packs of 6; £7/kg. ** Beef burgers are gluten-free; 98% beef with added rice flour and seasoning. Quarterpounders, packed in 4s. |
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