Subjects for the next meeting of the Lincolnshire Smallholding and Self Sufficiency Club!
4TH JULY 7PM
Hosted by a member of the club at their own smallholding in Wrangle, Lincolnshire.
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2x beers from the hosts tame micro brewery!
Other home brew - beware the Greenage!
Flat pack tractor - how to (or how not to) build a tractor from a kit - working demo and / or trail
Southdown sheep - should have some processed fleece(s) to look at.
Home made nettle soup and or lovage soup. Mmmmmm!!!!
The Orchard, a tour- including medlars and old Apple etc varieties
Chickens/Turkeys etc
A look at the conversion of an old washroom into a butchery/smokery
Any home baking we have not eaten by the time anyone arrives.
Details of address and directions on the LSSSC website
www.lsssc.org.uk.
Membership forms available on the website or at the meeting
Hope to see you there?
Home smokery , home brew , home baking and more!
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Guest
We have had a great selection of meetings over the months and I just thought Iwould share some info about our very latest one!
The home butchery demo for LSSSC took place this evening and was another wonderful evening packed with useful information for anyone wishing to turn their meat animals into recognisable and waste free joints and cuts!
Our wonderful master butcher for the evening talked us through each step clearly as he cut each side of pork into a huge array of different joints and cuts from spare rib chops,boned and rolled leg joints, stuffed belly of pork, to loin of pork and huge pork steaks. The list just went on! Nothing was wasted. All trimming and fatty bits could go into sausages . We were also told of the equivalent cuts on lamb and beef and shown the bone structure of each joint to enable us to bone out joints with little or no waste.
Our butcher also explained the curing of pork into hams and bacon and told us about the use of a brine pump to ensure the cure mix or brine penetrates fully into the bigger joints , especially around any bones and therefore ensured a proper and safe cure!
He also explained how he used to make salt beef in a similar way.
Our pork (British Saddleback) for the demo was kindly supplied by two of our members Glenys and Gary , who breed Gloucester Old Spots and British Saddleback pigs on their Lincolnshire smalholding along with some wonderful Ryeland sheep. PM me if you would ike their contact details?
Both Glenys and Gary did a roaring trade and a percentage of their profits from tonights orders are kindly being donated to LSSSC's events fund.
So a big thank you for that very kind gesture!
A lot of new faces were amongst those attending , which was lovely to see. It seems there are a lot of people now rearing their own meat animals or interested in finding smallholders to buy meat from!
We had time for our usual refreshments of tea and coffee and lots of home made cakes! Not a crumb was left!
The meeting ended with all of us really looking forward to meeting up yet again , for our clubs boozy Xmas social in December!
The home butchery demo for LSSSC took place this evening and was another wonderful evening packed with useful information for anyone wishing to turn their meat animals into recognisable and waste free joints and cuts!
Our wonderful master butcher for the evening talked us through each step clearly as he cut each side of pork into a huge array of different joints and cuts from spare rib chops,boned and rolled leg joints, stuffed belly of pork, to loin of pork and huge pork steaks. The list just went on! Nothing was wasted. All trimming and fatty bits could go into sausages . We were also told of the equivalent cuts on lamb and beef and shown the bone structure of each joint to enable us to bone out joints with little or no waste.
Our butcher also explained the curing of pork into hams and bacon and told us about the use of a brine pump to ensure the cure mix or brine penetrates fully into the bigger joints , especially around any bones and therefore ensured a proper and safe cure!
He also explained how he used to make salt beef in a similar way.
Our pork (British Saddleback) for the demo was kindly supplied by two of our members Glenys and Gary , who breed Gloucester Old Spots and British Saddleback pigs on their Lincolnshire smalholding along with some wonderful Ryeland sheep. PM me if you would ike their contact details?
Both Glenys and Gary did a roaring trade and a percentage of their profits from tonights orders are kindly being donated to LSSSC's events fund.
So a big thank you for that very kind gesture!
A lot of new faces were amongst those attending , which was lovely to see. It seems there are a lot of people now rearing their own meat animals or interested in finding smallholders to buy meat from!
We had time for our usual refreshments of tea and coffee and lots of home made cakes! Not a crumb was left!
The meeting ended with all of us really looking forward to meeting up yet again , for our clubs boozy Xmas social in December!
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