Down to the hall after Popmaster this morning. We all went including Bonnie and the kids sat playing with tablets while we were in the kitchen. Scarlett came and helped a bit and Davies came and took some photos.
I couldn’t get Fliss’ / The community mincer to work and when Ady came (he’d popped along to the pier to collect the petrol) he couldn’t get it to work either, so we called for Neil who had used it last but he couldn’t make it work either. He suggested we use the venison company one as Steve and Clare who are running it now are off island, so Ady whizzed along and picked that up.
Mincing took ages and we had kilos and kilos of it (over 30 I think in total). Then it was weighing and mixing in sausage mix and water and re mincing. I must have bought bigger packs of sausage skins last year because 2 packs went further then than the 3 packs I bought this year and we needed more than double what I had bought. Foolishly didn’t realise that until after I’d mixed the mince into sausagemeat, should have just left it as mince, never mind.
Then sausage stuffing til we ran out of skins, then sausage making which was trickier than it should have been because I had over stuffed them a bit really. Got 12 packs of sausages though, over 100 sausages in total. Scarlett helped me weigh out the rest of the sausage meat into 800g packs to freeze, we can make square sausages with that instead of link sausages. Ady cleaned down everything.
The kids walked home with the dog while Ady and I went to put the mincer back and put the meat in the freezer. It was gone 5pm and pitch dark by the time we got home, way later than I’d expected us to be.
Our own sausage and bacon for dinner though, that feels pretty cool 🙂