Comments on: Pork Brawn – Recipe

By: colin roberts

colin roberts — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:59:10 +0000

I bought a part hand of pork with trotter attached,£2:50 pressure cooked it for an our then put it through a hand mincer, then put it in a bowl and a heavy weight on it until morning. It tipped out well and looked like a jelly, sliced perfectly and tasted good, perhaps chewy.
I agree with the above it does not need salt and could take more meat and perhaps some chopped peppers. I shall try again greatfun!
Colin.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:35:37 +0000

Good pork butchers often produce excellent brawn – my favourite comes from Hayman’s in Sidmouth, Devon (even though I live in Lincolnshire). I had it as a starter with apple jelly at the Stagg at Titley in Herefordshire – they rear their own pigs and it was lovely.

By: steve

steve — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:26:02 +0000

Looking at the ‘Brawn’ recepie my mother and grandmother made ‘Chawl ‘
as far as I remember it was similar to brawn but was put into a basin and pressed with a heavy weight.
Has anyone out there got a recepie for it ?

By: sara

sara — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:48:55 +0000

Hi Samantha,
Thanks for visiting farmingfriends and leaving your comment. That’s good to know, thanks. I have now made pork brawn twice and it is delicious. We even had it as part of a roast dinner, probably a poor man’s roast dinner but lovely all the same! There is nothing more statisfying than knowing where your meat comes from and what the animal was fed and how it was treated. It is also good to use up as much of the animal meat as possible.
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

By: samantha

samantha — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:54:30 +0000

You can get engliosh brawn from some sainsbury’s delicatessen’s, it’s really cheap x

By: sara

sara — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:50:57 +0000

Hi Richard,
Thanks for visiting farmingfriends and leaving a comment.
The brawn I made with off cuts of pork from home reared pigs was delicious. great served with chutney and toast.
Unfortunately I don’t sell pork brawn which seems to be becoming more popular these days as I have been asked a few times about it.
I found this site which seems to sell it http://www.healfarm.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=61_40&products_id=210&osCsid=e5i5ul6ccecptn830lb4t8auo4
Let me know if you get some and if it tastes as you remember!
Kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

By: Richard Briers

Richard Briers — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:50:21 +0000

I remember eating brawn when I was a child and would love to try it again. Does anyone sell it?